This closely integrated collection of essays constitutes a wide‎-ranging and comprehensive attempt to understand persons within psychology‎-‎-a long‎-lost enterprise‎.‎ The volume was inspired by the observation that contemporary psychology has become increasingly depersonalized in its conceptions and its methodology‎,‎ and has thereby lost touch with its traditional subject matter of human individuality and the nature of persons‎.‎ This development now threatens the integrity of psychology as a discipline‎.‎ Using both a critical and constructive approach‎,‎ the various contributors share two common objectives‎:‎ *to explore the roots of depersonalization in modern psychology through systematic criticism of contemporary functionalist and neo‎-functionalist approaches‎;‎ *to articulate some alternative holistic‎-interpretive and historical approaches to the psychology of persons‎.‎ Despite these common objectives‎,‎ the chapters reflect a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches‎,‎ including cognitive science and neuroscience‎,‎ discursive psychology‎,‎ hermeneutics‎,‎ social constructionism‎,‎ semiotics‎,‎ rhetorical analysis‎,‎ and psychological aesthetics‎.‎ These essays do not converge on a unified psychology of persons‎,‎ but they do serve to reopen a form of discourse that has long been absent from mainstream psychology‎.‎ This volume emerged from the deliberations of the Western Canadian Theoretical Psychologists ‎(‎WCTP‎)‎‎-‎-a group of scholars primarily from Western Canadian universities with shared interests in the history and theory of psychology‎.‎ From its founding in 1989 to the present‎,‎ the WCTP has been actively engaged in promoting and contributing to the development of theoretical psychology‎.‎ Over the past half dozen years‎,‎ scholars have greatly benefitted from the close collaboration and collegial support that participation in the WCTP makes possible‎.‎ The annual meetings provide an opportunity for them to catch up on each other‎'‎s work and also to pool their expertise to work on topics of shared interest‎.‎