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This is a memoir on the life and work of Robert W. White, who lived in the twentieth century, but in a larger sense, it is a story of the birth of an historic movement (psychodynamic theory) initiated in the midst of a World War but destined to have everlasting significance for the study and understanding of human personality.
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Watt, N.F., McGovern, J.S. (2017). White, Robert W.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2078-3
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