title: Reflections of an eclectic skeptic.
abstract: Following primary and secondary education in Europe, I came to the United States for further education. After majoring in engineering, I shifted to liberal arts and social sciences. I minored in mathematics, philosophy, and education at the undergraduate level and physiology at the graduate level, ultimately obtaining a PhD in personality psychology. My interests were primarily academic, but I did not neglect the emerging field of clinical psychology. After working in hospitals for 9 years, I joined the faculty of Michigan State University where I established the psychological clinic and served as its director for 13 years. Subsequently, during 2 sabbaticals in Israel, I researched personality development in unconventional family settings (the kibbutz). I also studied such diverse issues as motivation for parenthood, time perception and time perspective, and cognition in psychopathology. After editing several textbooks on assessment techniques, I initiated the series of triennial Murray lectures that highlighted the dynamic approach to the study of personality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Lansing, 48824-1117, USA. rabin@pilot.msu.edu
authors.forename: Albert I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Rabin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D010553:Personality Development; D014481:United States