Virgilio Enriquez

Infobox Person
name = Virgilio Gaspar Enriquez, PH.D.


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birth_date = November 24, 1942
birth_place = Santol, Balagtas,Bulacan
death_date = August 31, 1994
death_place = San Francisco, California, USA
other_names = Doc. E
known_for = being the Father of Filipino Psychology
occupation = Doctor of Psychology

Virgilio G. Enriquez is known as the Father of Filipino Psychology, a field he established in 1975.

Enriquez' initial proposal that a Filipino concept of personhood centered on the core value expressed in the word Kapwa, a tagalog word that covers the concepts of both "self" and "others," has been expanded by those who studied under him, resulting in an entire system that seeks to describe the Filipino's sense of being a person, and an entire field of study that differentiates the Filipino's sense of being from those of other cultures, especially the western cultures.

Education and Academic Career

Enriquez got his masteral and doctoral degrees in Social Psychology from Northwestern University. He served as chair of the University of the Philippines' Psychology Department for two terms, from 1978 to 1982.

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*cite book
last = de Guia
first = Katrin
authorlink = Katrin de Guia
title = Kapwa: The Self in the Other: Worldviews and Lifestyles of Filipino Culture-Bearers
publisher = Anvil Publishing, Inc.
date = 2005
location = Pasig City
pages = 378
isbn = 971271490X
*cite web
last = UP College of Social Science and Philosophy
first = Department of Psychology
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Heads of the Department
work = UPDP History
publisher = www.upd.edu.ph
date =
url = http://web.kssp.upd.edu.ph/psych/history.htm
format = html
accessdate = 2008-02-03

Persondata
NAME = Enriquez, Virgilio G.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Filipino Psychologist
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