Product Description: Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis...read more

This study sets out psychometric methods and describes the technicalities of testing and factor analysis. Paul Kline discusses different types of personality tests and examines the main findings from the application of these tests and methods. He further shows their utility in the applied fields of clinical, occupational and educational psychology, as well as drawing out many theoretical implications. "Personality: the Psychometric View" is written for students, yet also deals with the technical problems in this area, and reviews the work of leading researchers such as Cattell, Eysenck, Guilford, and Jackson. It is aimed at students of psychology, education and the social sciences, as well as those in the medical sciences who need to know about personality. Like its companion volume "Intelligence: the Psychometric View", it could also be useful to postgraduates who need to use personality tests in their work.

Many psychological factors are little more than statistical descriptions of particular sets of data and have no real significance. Paul Kline uses his long and extensive knowledge of psychological measurement to argue that truly scientific forms of measurement could be developed to create a new psychometrics. This would transform the basis of psychology and change it from a social science to a pure science. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text provides an introduction to psychometrics. The central chapters describe the nature of scientific measurement, the way psychometric tests are constructed and illustrate intelligence, aptitude and other psychological tests. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Since publication in its first edition the Handbook of Psychological Testing has become the standard text for organisational and educational psychologists. It offers the only comprehensicve, modern and clear account of the whole of the field of psychometrics. It covers psychometric theory, the different kinds of psychological test, applied psychological testing, and the evaluation of the best published psychological tests. It is outstanding for its detailed and complete coverage of the field, its clarity (even for the non-mathematical) and its emphasis on the practical application of psychometric theory in psychology and education, as well as in vocational, occupational and clinical fields.For this second edition the Handbook has been extensively revised and updated to include the latest research and thinking in the field. Unlike other work in this area, it challenges the scientific rigour of conventional psychometrics and identifies groundbreaking new ways forward.

Product Description: Paul Kline's latest book provides a readable modern account of the psychometric view of intelligence. It explains factor analysis and the construction of intelligence tests, and shows how the resulting factors provide a picture of human abilities...read more

Product Description: This is a clear and accessible introduction to Freudian theory and its status in modern psychology. Paul Kline examines the evidence for and against psychoanalytic theories and shows that, far from being out of date, they can be supported by modern psychological research...read more