Product Description: Ryckman's thoroughly updated Sixth Edition offers a consistent and easy-to-follow organization that helps students to compare, contrast, and critically evaluate 16 major theories in personality psychology. Students not only learn what theorists think, but how they think.

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No other book integrates traditional personality theories with current research as effectively as Jerry Burger's Personality Fourth Edition. For each school of thought (Freudian, neo-Freudian, trait, biological, humanistic, behavioral/social learning, and cognitive), a chapter on "Theory, Application, and Assessment" is followed by a chapter on "Relevant Research" to illustrate how research ties in with the theories covered.

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Organizing content into six domains of personality functioning (dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive/experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment), this second edition interweaves research with theories within the context of each of the domains.

This comprehensive, unbiased introduction to personality theory and research includes cutting-edge developments in the trait and social cognitive/information-processing approaches to personality and features a unique balance between reserarch and case illustration. Extensive integrated case examples illustrate and apply each theory, enhancing the relevance and prodiving a basis for comparing one theory to another.

Designed to prepare readers to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who they may encounter in professional work and in their personal lives, this engaging volume provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research. It brings the theories to life through the interpretation of illustrative historic and current biographies. This book covers the important theories in personality research—psychoanalysis, individual psychology, personological trait theory, psychoanalytic learning theory, behaviorism, cognitive social learning theory—as well as the people that pioneered those theories—Freud, Adler, Allport, Skinner, Staats, Dollard, Miller, Mischel, and Bandura. For anyone who wants a better handle on understanding the people in their professional and personal lives.

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Personality Theories features the people behind the major theories. To help students understand the way theories develop and evolve, this text links the ideas of theorists to their lives and personalities, providing a bridge between text materials and reader's experiences. The comprehensive number of theorists covered are organised by chapter, with a running comparison with previous theorists.

Organized by the theorists behind major movements in personality studies, this comprehensive book presents theorists' lives as well as their contributions to the field of personality. Its unique "Running Comparison" sections use a tabular format to stack the beliefs of all theorists encountered thus far in the text against one another for easy reference. In addition, each chapter begins with a series of leading questions that provide context before the reader launches into the chapter. Summary Points and Essay/Critical Thinking Questions wrap up each chapter, providing food for thought. Diversity issues are also highlighted as part of Allen's humanistic approach. Theorists covered include Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan, Erik Erikson, Erich Fromm, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, George Kelly, Julian Rotter, Walter Mischel, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Henry A. Murray, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, and Gordon Allport. The new Third Edition adds Rollo May's ideas, expanded coverage of Freud's famous cases and existentialism, and more case studies. It also incorporates new information on such hot, contemporary topics as The Bell Curve, emotional intelligence, and the eugenics scandal that cost Raymond Cattell a prestigious award. For professionals, students, and others interested in the contributions of major thinkers in the area of human personality.

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A survey of classical and current theories of personality, including explanations of theoretical concepts as presented by the original theorists, as well as more recent criticisms and applications. The book illustrates each theory with two psychobiographies, in which theoretical concepts are used to understand a diversity of current and historical individuals, such as Hitler and Gandhi. The biographies of each theorist are provided and the implications of theories for therapy discussed.

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This trusted text centers on the premise that personality theories are a reflection of the unique cultural background, family experiences, personalities, and professional training of their originators. The book begins by acquainting students with the meaning of personality and providing them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory, as well as its crucial contributions to science. The chapters that follow present twenty-three major theories: coverage of each theory also encompasses a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research, and applications to real life. The new edition includes greater coverage of the Big Five theory, a new organization, and updated research throughout.

Product Description: This theorist-by-theorist approach to personality theories explores how the personal histories, conflicts, and intentions of each theorist contributed to his or her portraits of people. The Seventh Edition has involved a significant revision including rewriting and updating of most of the chapters, the addition of a chapter on evolutionary psychology, and the recasting or change in emphasis of a number of chapters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Organizing content into six domains of personality functioning (dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive/experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment), this text interweaves contemporary research with classic and modern theories within the context of each of the domains. This unique framework encourages students to view the "whole person" as the sum of influences and effects of each of the domains of personality functioning. The second edition includes the latest research, as well as a restructuring of material, and continues to bring the subject to life by incorporating a vivid, four-color design.

Organized by the theorists behind major movements in personality studies, this comprehensive book presents theorists' lives as well as their contributions to the field of personality. Its unique "Running Comparison" sections use a tabular format to stack the beliefs of all theorists encountered thus far in the text against one another for easy reference. In addition, each chapter begins with a series of leading questions that provide context before the reader launches into the chapter. Summary Points and Essay/Critical Thinking Questions wrap up each chapter, providing food for thought. Diversity issues are also highlighted as part of Allen's humanistic approach. Theorists covered include Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan, Erik Erikson, Erich Fromm, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, George Kelly, Julian Rotter, Walter Mischel, Albert Bandura, B.F. Skinner, Henry A. Murray, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, and Gordon Allport. The new Third Edition adds Rollo May's ideas, expanded coverage of Freud's famous cases and existentialism, and more case studies. It also incorporates new information on such hot, contemporary topics as The Bell Curve, emotional intelligence, and the eugenics scandal that cost Raymond Cattell a prestigious award. For professionals, students, and others interested in the contributions of major thinkers in the area of human personality.

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Product Description: Written in a warm and humanistic style—with an abundance of examples—this solid, comprehensive introduction to the essentials of psychology offers an accessible balance of theory, research, and applications which focuses on the positive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)