ABSTRACT
At the Second European Conference on Personality, held in 1984 at the University of Bielefeld in what was then West Germany, I participated in a symposium organized by Professor Jean-Pierre DeWaele of the Free University of Brussels. The symposium centered around the theme of the individual in personality psychology. During the symposium I had the opportunity to present a paper (subsequently published; Lamiell, 1986) elaborating the central epistemological tenets of a position I had sketched a few years previously in an American Psychologist article (Lamiell, 1981). It happened that a handful of German scholars found much of interest in my presentation, and, in the symposium’s aftermath, they and I spent a great deal of time conferring around various coffee tables.
