Spence, Donald P(ond)

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SPENCE, Donald P(ond)

SPENCE, Donald P(ond). American, b. 1926. Genres: Psychology. Career: Psychologist, psychoanalyst, and writer. New York University, NYC, research assistant, research associate 1954-56, research assistant professor, 1956-63, research associate professor, 1963-66, associate professor, 1966-70, professor of psychology, 1970-74; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, professor of psychiatry, 1974-. Visiting professor at Stanford University, 1971-72, Princeton University, 197594, Louvain-le-Neuve, 1980, and William Alanson White Institute, 1992. Publications: Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalytic Theory, 1982; The Freudian Metaphor: Toward Paradigm Change in Psychoanalysis, 1987; The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis: Displacement of Evidence by Theory, 1994. EDITOR: The Broad Scope of Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Leopold Bellak, 1967; Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science, Vol 4, 1976. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 9 Haslet Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.