Interviews
By Neal Vorus, PhD, FIPA (IPTAR)
Neal Vorus: You were the first president of CIPS and a member of the committee that initiated the CIPS Book Series, and were also the author of the first book in the series. Do you see your book as representative of the series as a whole?
Steven Ellman: I think so, mildly. It has one of the themes: the idea of trying to understand other perspectives. I had hoped that that theme would be part of the CIPS Book Series when we originally founded it and that we could intermingle despite theoretical differences and try to understand the other’s perspective.
NV: So, the title of your book reflects this agenda: theories touching rather than diverging.
SE: Well, it reflects my view of what I think the Book Series should...
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