ABSTRACT
Many answers flooded my consciousness. In fact I had already written two chapters involving personal accounts of how I became who I am today academically. One of these is the Preface to my above mentioned book and the other is a chapter ‘A personal account of my involvement in cross-cultural developmental psychology’ (1996b) in a book entitled, A History of Developmental Psychology in Autobiography, edited by Dennis Thompson and John D.Hogan. However, this time I was thinking rather differently and was preoccupied with when and how my academic orientation to psychological phenomena, and in particular to familial and interpersonal relations, had changed. This will be the main focus of this chapter.
