Personality Strategies and Issues

Name: Personality Strategies and Issues
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ISBN: 9780534264185

ISBN-10: 0534264182

ISBN-13: 9780534264185

Edition: 8th 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Robert M. Liebert, Michael D. Spiegler

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This sound, scholarly book continues to organize the diverse content of personality psychology in a meaningful way, taking care to present complex concepts in highly readable, accessible language. Using a single, overarching framework, the authors capture the flavor of each of four important conceptual strategies (psychoanalytic, dispositional, behavioral, and representational) and four fundamental issues (theory, assessment, research, and personality change) underlying contemporary personality psychology. The presentation of each strategy begins with an overview chapter that describes the strategy's basic assumptions and principles, as well as its respective intellectual school of thought.…

Book details

List price: $276.95
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 12/18/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 581
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English

Ph.D., Stanford University

Michael D. Spiegler (Ph.D., clinical psychology, Vanderbilt University, 1969) has been director of the Community Training Center at the Palo Alto VA Hospital, was on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, and currently is Professor of Psychology at Providence College.




Introduction To Scientific Personality Psychology



Overview



Methods of Personality Research



The Psychoanalytic Strategy



Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Strategy



Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories



Post-Freudian Perspectives



Applications and Limitations of the Psychoanalytic Strategy



The Dispositional Strategy



Introduction to the Dispositional Strategy



The Biological Approach



Evolution of the Trait Concept



Applications and Limitations of the Dispositional Strategy



The Behavioral Strategy



Introduction to the Behavioral Strategy



The Radical-Behavioral Approach



The Social-Learning Approach



Applications and Limitations of the Behavioral Strategy



The Representational Strategy



Introduction to the Representational Strategy



The Phenomenological Approach



The Cognitive Approach



Applications and Limitations of the Representational Strategy



Prospects For Integration



Commonalities and Continuing Controversies