ABSTRACT
The present po~ition. The reader who has reached this point may be pardoned for feeling somewhat discouraged. Personality, it seems, is so complex that all the efforts psychologists have put into clinical and psychometric research over the past thirty years or so have brought us nowhere. Projective testing and factor analysis are equally blind alleys. We still seem to be able to do little better than the layman, with his naive, commonsense - yet obviously inaccurate - methods of diagnosing and assessing personalities.
