Advanced Personality
Embracing all aspects of personality study, Advanced Personality addresses major established theories and vital current research topics in the field, from the perspectives of both clinical and scholarly settings. This impressive text-reference features chapters that cover, among other topics-psychobiological theories of personality- conscious and unconscious functioning-and personality disorders from a trait perspective. Written for entry-level graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, the book includes an introductory chapter with a chronological table listing all major figures in the history of the field, and tables that summarize key aspects of various theories.
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Advanced Personality
Embracing all aspects of personality study, Advanced Personality addresses major established theories and vital current research topics in the field, from the perspectives of both clinical and scholarly settings. This impressive text-reference features chapters that cover, among other topics-psychobiological theories of personality- conscious and unconscious functioning-and personality disorders from a trait perspective. Written for entry-level graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, the book includes an introductory chapter with a chronological table listing all major figures in the history of the field, and tables that summarize key aspects of various theories.
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Embracing all aspects of personality study, Advanced Personality addresses major established theories and vital current research topics in the field, from the perspectives of both clinical and scholarly settings. This impressive text-reference features chapters that cover, among other topics-psychobiological theories of personality- conscious and unconscious functioning-and personality disorders from a trait perspective. Written for entry-level graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, the book includes an introductory chapter with a chronological table listing all major figures in the history of the field, and tables that summarize key aspects of various theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306457456
Publisher: Springer US
Publication date: 05/31/1998
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description: 1998
Pages: 422
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

I. Overview.- 1 Introduction to Personality Study.- II. Theories of Personality.- 2 Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality.- 3 Interpersonal and Systemic Theories of Personality.- 4 Humanistic and Experiential Theories of Personality.- 5 Trait Theories of Personality.- 6 Psychobiological Theories of Personality.- 7 Operant Theory of Personality.- 8 Social Cognitive Theories of Personality.- III. Special Topic: Conscious and Unconscious Functioning.- 9 Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory.- 10 Why Do We Need to Be Conscious? A Psychoanalytic Answer.- IV Current Research Topics in Personality.- 11 Aggressive Personalities.- 12 Learned Helplessness and Explanatory Style.- 13 Subjective Weil-Being and Personality.- 14 Personality Disorders.- 15 Self-with-Other Representations.- 16 Sex/Gender and the Individual.- Afterword.- Author Index.
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