Books by Donald R. Peterson

Peterson sees his correspondence with Paul Meehl as a privilege and would like to give others a chance to see the intellectual sparkle, erudition, human kindness, and moral passion that Paul Meehl brought to his everyday exchanges.

The decade of the 1960s witnessed early attempts to create a unified science-profession of clinical psychology. Following in the path of these efforts, Donald Peterson set out to write what he describes in his new introduction as a 'manifesto' for a 'scientifically grounded, practically effective professional psychology.'

"Twelve Years of Correspondence" is composed mainly of letters between Drs. Paul Meehl and Donald Peterson during the final 12 years of Meehl's life. The correspondence forms a story of the relationship, as well as a dialogue between two eminent clinical psychologists.