The following autobiographical essay traces three topics: firstly, the particular individual circumstances which led to me becoming a cultural psychologist under the difficult conditions of postwar Germany; secondly, the main culture-psychological research work we carried out at the University of the Saarland; and thirdly, the theoretical rationale on which this work was based.
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Boesch, E.E. (1952). L'exploration du caractere de l'enfant. Paris: Editions du Scarabee.
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Boesch, E.E.
(1958a). Problems and methods in cross-cultural research. Bangkok: UNESCO, Working Paper I, Ed./4, Expert Meeting on Cross-Cultural Research in Child Psychology (mimeograph).
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Boesch, E.E.
(1958b). First research plan of the International Institute for Child Study, Parts II and In. Bangkok: UNESCO, Working Paper III, Expert Meeting on Cross-Cultural Research in Child Psychology (mimeograph).
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(1960). The Thailand project, step one. Vita humana, 3, 123-142. Basel: Karger.
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(1983f). A psychologist's look at the refugee problem. In E.E. Boesch & A. Goldschmidt (Eds.), The world refugee problem: Refugees and development (pp. 11-74). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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