Abstract :
I decided while an undergraduate that I wanted to be a psychologist. Beyond that, I’m still not
sure what I’ll do when I grow up. This brief autobiography maps the shifting sands of my professional
identity: from psychotherapist to developmental psychopathologist and then to primary
concerns with education and training, from psychologist to academic administrator and
then back again, to forensic psychologist and on to whatever may come next. Through all of
these shifts in focus, however, there has been one recurring theme—the appeal of being an assessment
psychologist. The events that kept bringing me back to assessment, whatever else my
focus at the time, are recorded in the story that follows.
