The life of Dr Virgilio G Enriquez
( Literary Journalism )
Dr. Virgilio G. Enriquez was born on November
24,1942 at Santol, Balagtas former Bigaa, Bulacan and Died at the age of 52
years old on the 31st of August 1994. He started teaching in the year 1963 in
University of Philippines and in 1965. He started using Filipit Language in
teaching Psychology. He left for the United States of America for his post
graduate studies. He returned in the Philippine in the year 1970. Dr. Virgilio
Enriquez, also known as Dr. E, started the "Pambansang Samahan sa
Sikolohiyang Pilipino" where he was also given the title "Father of
Filipino psychology/ Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino" to acknowledge all the
work we has contributed. Dr. Enriquez got his masteral and doctoral degrees in
Social Psychology from Northwestern University. He stated the core values of
Sikolohiyang Pilipino is the concept tje concept of "Kapwa" a tagalog
word that covers the concepts of both "self" and "others"
has been expanded by this students. It resulted in an entire system that seeks
to describe the Filipino's sense of being person, and to study the difference
of Filipino sense of being from cultures, especially the master cultures.
According to Dr. Virgilio Enriquez Filipino Psychology is the fruit of
experience, ideas and orientation of Filipinos. He also said that through this
study, a Filipino can understand himself and in return, be able to improve his
life even more. This Article was published by Rath Felder, that was posted in
the wikipedia 2 months ago. The following information was gathered from Ms.
Katrin De Guia from Anvil, Publishing Incorporation in the year 2005. The
information about his school history was from UP College of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, Department of Psychology.
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