| Abstract: | Donald Pond Spence, distinguished psychologist and psychoanalyst, was born on February 8, 1926, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 25, 2007, at the age of 81. He was an "inside" critic of psychoanalysis who supported its importance as a hermeneutic (interpretive) discipline but questioned its status as normative science. Spence served on review committees for the National Institute of Mental Health and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and served as president of APA Division 24, the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (1992-1993). In 2004, he received the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
