Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology

Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 89-109

  Shelley, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315130354-6     Document Type: Chapter

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