Personality and Personal Growth
3rd Edition
Published in January 1994
Book
Hardback
522 pages
978-0-06-500772-5 (ISBN)
Description
This text covers topics and theories which are relevant to both students' interests and contemporary psychology. Theories are brought to life by numerous quotes and extensive opening biographies. Providing insights into the minds of theorists, their work becomes easier to understand. This edition has been updated to include recenly published works by leading theorists, new thinking and developments about Freudian psychology, the latest material on the psychology of women, extensive coverage on cognitive psychology, new advances in transpersonal psychology and the psychology of the body, and new translations and scholarly material on Eastern psychologies - Yoga, Zen, Buddhism and Sufism. There is also coverage of biofeedback, hypnosis and multiple personality.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1175 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-500772-5 (9780065007725)
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10/1997
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Content
Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis; Carl Gustav Jung and analytic psychology; Alfred Adler and individual psychology; Karen Horney and humanistic psychoanalysis; the psychology of women - a relational approach by Judith V. Jordon, Jean Baker Miller, Irene P. Stiver and Janet Surrey; Erik Erikson and the life cycle; Wilhelm Reich and somatic psychology; Frederick Perls, Laura Perls and gestalt therapy; William James and the psychology of consciousness; B.F. Skinner and radical behaviourism; cognitive psychology and the personal constructs theory of George Kelly by Kaisa Puhakka; Carl Rogers and the person-centred perspective; Abraham Maslow and transpersonal psychology; yoga and the Hindu tradition; Zen and the Buddhist tradition; Sufism and the Islamic tradition.