By Edutopia.org — 2009
Edutopia revisits its 1997 interview with the Harvard University professor about multiple intelligences and new forms of assessment.
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CLEAR ALL
The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.
Alexander was a rare psychoanalytic pioneer who, despite a thorough grounding in classical Freudian theory, had the courage, vision, and flexibility to modify his thinking in the light of newer knowledge.