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The Rev. W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D., an advanced candidate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, is affiliated with the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. During 1966–67, when his papers on values were written, he spent a year as research fellow at the Cambridge Center for Social Studies. He is author ofAnnotated Bibliography in Religion and Psychology, Group Dynamics in the Religious Life (1965), andFoundations for a Psychology of Grace (1966). HisThe Psychology of Authority will be published by Sheed & Ward this year.
This is the first of a series of three articles. The second and third, subtitled “Values as Psychological” and “Values as Cultural,” will appear in later issues.
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Meissner, W.W. Notes toward a theory of values: The place of values. J Relig Health 9, 123–137 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01532388
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