
Making Sense of People
Samuel Barondes(Author)
Pearson FT Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-13-523095-4 (ISBN)
Description
What really bothers you about your boss-or your daughter's boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you're dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will help you quickly assess anyone's tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You'll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognise telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savour the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.
A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!
Supplement your intuition
Identify character strengths and weaknesses
Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid
Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in
Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.
Now improved with easy, step-by-step "practical summaries," these tools will help you quickly assess anyone's tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You'll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognise telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savour the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.
A quick, easy system for understanding anyone!
Supplement your intuition
Identify character strengths and weaknesses
Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid
Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the world we happen to grow up in
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
NJ
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 100 mm
Width: 100 mm
Thickness: 100 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-523095-4 (9780135230954)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction: When Intuition Isn't Enough
Part I: Describing Personality Differences
1 Personality Traits
2 Troublesome Patterns
Part II: Explaining Personality Differences
3 How Genes Make Us Different
4 Building a Personal Brain
Part III: Whole Persons, Whole Lives
5 What's a Good Character?
6 Identity: Creating a Personal Story
7 Putting It All Together
Endnotes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: When Intuition Isn't Enough
Part I: Describing Personality Differences
1 Personality Traits
2 Troublesome Patterns
Part II: Explaining Personality Differences
3 How Genes Make Us Different
4 Building a Personal Brain
Part III: Whole Persons, Whole Lives
5 What's a Good Character?
6 Identity: Creating a Personal Story
7 Putting It All Together
Endnotes
References
Acknowledgments
Index