Chapter 1: Relating to Dr. Werner: Past and Present

The verb in the title “Relating to Dr. Werner” was selected because relating is the continuous present. It is an appropriate choice because Dr. Werner’s framework has stimulated me in the past as well as in the present. I refer to Heinz Werner as “Dr. Werner” because I was never part of the scholarly research “inner circles” at work during the 1950s at Clark University. While Werner and Wapner worked on the sensory-tonic theory of perception (see Wapner, 2005) and while Werner and Kaplan (1963) explored the area of symbol formation, I was an outsider with respect to my activities as a clinician, teacher, and researcher.