ABSTRACT
During the 2000s the Journal of Personality Assessment published a series of autobiographies of assessment psychologists. The series editors, Bill Kinder and Steve Strack, asked if I would contribute. I was surprised, and imagined that the invitation was in part related to the fact that the series had included only one woman (Jane Loevinger). But upon reection, I realized that I had served ten years on the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) Board of Directors and on assorted committees, had delivered a Master Lecture on “Individualized, Collaborative Assessment” (Fischer, 2000-Chapter 11 of this volume), and was being told by colleagues that my contribution in pioneering that approach was now evident as the forward edge of a paradigm change in psychological assessment. In 2006 I was presented SPA’s Bruno Klopfer Award for “outstanding, long-term professional contributions to the eld of personality assessment.” Along the way I had published 130-some articles, chapters, and books. I felt honored to be included in the autobiography series, but it took me more than six years to complete my submission and hence it was never published in the journal. As this current volume was taking shape it seemed tting to include this account of my journey.
