Personality theories : an introduction / Barbara Engler.

By:

Engler, Barbara

Material type:

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1999.Edition: 5th edDescription: xxv, 550 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0395907659

Subject(s):

Personality

Contents:

Introduction: Evaluating personality theories -- Psychoanalytic approach: Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud -- Neopsychoanalytic approach: Carl Jung; Alfred Adler; Karen Horney; Erich Fromm -- More recent trends in psychoanalytic theory: Ego psychology, Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, Erik Erikson, Human relations: Melanie Klein, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg and Nancy Chodorow, The Stone Center Group -- Behavior and learning theories -- Experimental analysis of behavior: John Dollard, Neal Miller and B.F. Skinner -- Social learning theories: Albert Bandura and Julian Rotter -- Dispositional theories: Traits and personology: Gordon Allport and Henry A. Murray -- Factor analytic theories : Raymond Cattell, the big five personality traits; Biological traits: Hans Eysenck; Humanistic and existential theories: Humanism: Abraham Maslow; Carl Rogers -- Existential psychoanalysis: Rollo May -- Cognitive theories: Personal constructs: George Kelly; Cognitive-behavioral theories, Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck and Arnold Lazarus -- Non-Western approach: Zen Buddhism; Conclusion, personality theory in perspective.

Summary: [The book] is designed both to explain the major personality theories and to stimulate critical thinking about them. [The author] has pursued four main objectives. To present a clear and concise picture of the major features of each important personality theory.... To focus on significant ideas and themes that structure the content of the different personality theories.... To provide criteria to guide the evaluation of each theory.... To present activities, informed by the tenets of each theory, that will provide growth in critical thinking skills. -Pref.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-525) and index.

[The book] is designed both to explain the major personality theories and to stimulate critical thinking about them. [The author] has pursued four main objectives. To present a clear and concise picture of the major features of each important personality theory.... To focus on significant ideas and themes that structure the content of the different personality theories.... To provide criteria to guide the evaluation of each theory.... To present activities, informed by the tenets of each theory, that will provide growth in critical thinking skills. -Pref.