PubMed · 1193580
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L D van den Daele. 1975. Ego development in dialectical perspective.. https://doi.org/10.1159/000271480
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Psychology assumes defensible notions of human subjectivity and understanding. Yet, some versions of postmodernism, including some of those currently influential within psychology, eschew the possibility of the kind of understanding-capable personhood on which modern psychology has depended. The authors argue for a skeptical, middle-ground position that might allow psychologists to resist a forced choice between modernism and postmodernism in their subject matter and understanding. The authors set up their argument with 2 stories of human development and change. These stories assume no fixed, essentialist foundations of the sort favored in classically modern psychologies, yet they maintain the possibility of both self and understanding within a real but contingent physical, biological, and sociocultural world. The authors then articulate a middle-ground position as one that avoids the fixed foundationalism, essentialism, and absolute certitude of modernity, without endorsing the radical arbitrariness, antisubjectivism, and anarchistic relativism of some versions of postmodernity.
The assessment center (AC), which played an important role in the recruitment of officers at the beginning of the century, nowadays is used in the business for the selection of managers. Also in the medical institutions the AC is of increasing significance, since the accentuation of economic aspects have led to a change in the qualities expected of a physician in chief. Usually the AC in the classic form is not applied; more often, hospitals take advantage of professional counselors who obviously use the basic elements of the AC. Physicians who are concerned are recommended to study the essence of the AC.