Twelve years of correspondence with Paul Meehl

"Twelve Years of Correspondence is composed mainly of letters between Drs. Paul Meehl and Donald R. Peterson during the final 12 years of Meehl's life. Peterson was one of Meehl's earliest PhD students and the two corresponded throughout their careers. After Meehl's death, Dr. Peterson revisited their correspondence and found a remarkable order in it. One topic flowed into another. With some connective, explanatory text, the letters shaped themselves into a book. The correspondence forms a story of the relationship between an extraordinary mentor and his student, as well as a dialogue between two eminent clinical psychologists."--Jacket.