Personality category: 1900 books
The New Personality Self-Portrait
Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The New Personality Self -portrait is the only guide to personality types based on the American Psychiatric Association's just-published official diagnostic system -- the DSM -IV -- and written by one of today's leading personality researchers. A long-time backlist bestseller in its previous edition,...
by Dr. John Song, Luke Smillie, Nick Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The second edition of this popular textbook builds on the strengths of the first, continuing its reputation for clarity, accessibility, conceptual sophistication and panoramic coverage of personality and intelligence. The authorship team is enriched by the addition of two high-profile international...
by Walter Mischel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
After many "out-of-print" years, this volume has been reissued in response to an increasing demand for copies. This reflects that the fundamental questions that motivated this book thirty years ago are still being asked. But more important, the answers -- or at least their outlines -- now...
Borderline Personality Disorder
Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
For decades, The Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM)--the most popular of the projective tests--has been routinely employed for personality assessment and treatment planning. But in recent years, it has not been free from controversy. Criticisms of its validity and empirical support are catalyzing new...
Treating Personality Disorder
Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.
Treating Personality Disorder offers contributions from professionals in psychiatry,...
Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders
Metacognition, States of Mind and Interpersonal Cycles
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
An accurate description of the problems associated with personality disorders can lead to psychotherapists providing better treatment for their patients, alleviating some of the difficulties associated with handling such disorders. The authors draw on existing therapeutic approaches and concepts to...
by Steven Tuber
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The past forty years have revealed a myriad of theoretical advances to Freud’s original conceptions of the personality. It has also witnessed the continued use of projective methods as a vital means of understanding the what and the how of mental health and psychopathology. Understanding Personality...
What's Your Dog Type
A New System for Understanding Yourself and Others, Improving Your Relationships, and Getting What You Want in Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
WHAT’S YOUR DOG TYPE? features a new system to understand yourself and others by knowing the type of dog you like most or least and assessing the type of dog others are most like. The system can help you improve relationships in your personal life or at work, gain more success in...
Theories of Personality
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Designed as a text for both graduate and undergraduate students, this book, originally published in 1995, presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour – concepts based on psychological processes and ‘structures’ within the mind. In this context, a unique treatment of personality theory...
Personality as an Affect-processing System
Toward An Integrative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering variety of construals and constructs.
In...
The Personality Brokers
The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
***A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018*
*An Economist Best Book of 2018*
*A Spectator Best Book of 2018*
*A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018*
An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter--fiction writers with no formal training...
Parental Descriptions of Child Personality
Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children. It is an important piece of research because of its cross-national focus on personality development.
The authors present...
Personality Plus at Work
How to Work Successfully with Anyone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
For 25 years, Florence Littauer's bestselling Personality Plus has been required reading for employees of major companies. Now, Personality Plus at Work takes things a step further and shows readers how to work successfully with anyone by paying attention to basic personality differences. It shows...