ABSTRACT
In view of the contributions gathered in the present volume, it would appear that qualitative psychology has come of age, especially in its aim of paving the way toward a more inclusive, capacious, and indeed adequate form of psychological science. Difficult though the terrain of psychological inquiry remains, there is no questioning this progress, and the authors of the chapters found herein are right to find in the “arrival” of qualitative psychology a harbinger of good things to come. Significant though this progress has been, it is suggested in this chapter that qualitative psychology would do well to press still farther in its efforts by having a portion of its work move beyond the boundaries of psychological science altogether. Some of this work has already begun, and it may serve to take the discipline of psychology into entirely new directions. There are thus ample grounds for hope, both within and beyond the current parameters of the qualitative movement.
