On Being a Person

From the Introduction: The approach of this text will be multidisciplinary: psychologists philosophers theologians and ethicists grappling with what it means to be a person. This volume will not attempt to provide a comprehensive history of psychology but will instead focus on selected representatives of various paradigms of psychology: from the first systematic psychologist Aristotle through psychology's development as an empirical science and to recent developments in family systems theory. It will especially emphasize a social-relational-spiritual view of the self: namely human relations to God and to others are essential to humanity