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  1. the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Boston, USA

    W. W. Meissner S.J., M.D. (advanced candidate)

  2. Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, Boston, USA

    W. W. Meissner S.J., M.D. (advanced candidate)

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He spent a year during 1966–67 as research fellow at the Cambridge Center for Social Studies. His published works includeAnnotated 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 second of a series of three articles. The first, subtitled “The Place of Values,” was published in the April issue; the third, subtitled “Values as Cultural,” will appear later.

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Meissner, W.W. Notes toward a theory of values: Values as psychological. J Relig Health 9, 233–249 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01532322

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