Since its introduction by E. Bleuler in 1911, the so-called 'basic symptom' autism has often been considered cardinally important within schizophrenic symptomatology. A lack of precise definition and ...
This essay introduces the terms "nomothetic" and "idiographic" to characterize the current debate about whether the field of family therapy should accumulate and apply knowledge about patterns of adju...
Recent discussions of the idiographic-nomothetic debate were initially reviewed in this paper. Three important issues stemming from this debate were then expounded within the context of Personal Const...