Personality category: 1900 books

Do people say you're highly sensitive, that you're clairvoyant or even psychic? Are you sometimes confused with your personality and suffer from mood swings? Do you wonder where you unique and powerful emotions come from? If you are, you could be an empath.This book will help you...

If you are an INTP, this book is an opportunity for you to learn from some of the most famous and successful people who share your personality type. Indulge yourself in this collection of over 200 fun, inspiring, and thought-provoking quotes from famous INTPs who share the same strengths and weaknesses...

It would be impossible for most of us to spend a day without coming into direct or indirect contact with dozens of people family, friends, people in the street, at the office, on television, in our fantasies and fears. Our relationships with others are the most changeable, infuriating, pleasurable...

The type test inside will tell you about the choices you've made and the direction you're taking—according to C. G. Jung's theory of psychological types. For Jung, knowing your type was essential to understanding yourself: a way to measure personal growth and change. But his ideas have been...

This book provides a re-appraisal of Carl Jung‘s work as a personality theorist. It offers a detailed consideration of Jung‘s work and theory in order to demystify some of the ideas that psychologists have found most difficult, such as Jung‘s religious and alchemical writings. The book shows why these two elements of his theory are integral to his

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that...

​This monograph owes its  origins to the decades-old proposal by David Bakan (1968) about the duality of human experience. He proposed that community and agency  would be two necessary and  sufficient constructs  to classify and to encompass most human relationships. This dichotomy  has been...

This work analyzes the interrelation and interdependence between personality changes, which differ in their nature and phenomenology, and disorders of certain aspects of communicative ability. The author's approach is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of neuropsychological, psychopathological...

This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In so doing, it offers a coherent theoretical and developmental analysis of socialization and its vicissitudes, and of the role played in socialization by the crime-relevant...

The book presents a contrasting study of the views of ancient Indian, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Russian philosophers on creativity. It also discusses the subject of creativity as viewed by Freud, Jung, Adler, the Gestalt school, and other prominent Western psychologists. A special place...

What were they thinking?Have you had times when you blamed your troubles on your upbringing?Do people say that you are just like your parent?If you understand the motivations of your parents, teachers or caregivers, it may be easier to accept the way they went about raising or teaching you and dissolve...

Personality Disorder (PD) is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat and in the past literature on the subject has tended to neglect the invaluable viewpoint of sufferers themselves. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, Heather...

Originally published in 1953, this third edition was first published in 1970. It was one of the early attempts at bringing together theories of personality organisation and finding empirical evidence to test their hypotheses. This third edition includes additional chapters and updated references to...

This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels against it. All this reflects processes of social...