Personality category: 1900 books

Es gibt Lebensläufe, die sanften Wanderwegen gleichen: vorhersehbar, geradlinig, ohne viel Auf und Ab. Doch das sind Ausnahmen. Leben heißt meistens auch: Umwege nehmen, Hindernisse überwinden, nach einem Sturz wieder aufstehen. Warum gelingt das einigen so viel besser als anderen? Eine über 90 Jahre...

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinking that is moving from...

This book is about the relationship between social psychology and the body. It starts from the assumption that questions to do with the body are of paramount importance for an understanding of social life. At first sight, this is a noncontentious statement to make, and yet a moment's thought shows...

Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the subject of negative critique.

Vendu depuis plus de 30 ans, Comprendre les types de personnalité résume les conclusions de l'étude à laquelle l'auteur, Isabel Briggs Myers, a consacré toute sa vie: l'identification et la classification des types de personnalité. Inspirée des travaux de Carl Gustav Jung, la typologie créée...

Les théories évolutionnistes peuvent-elles expliquer certaines pathologies de la personnalité ?L’homme a besoin d’explications. Y compris sur ses propres comportements. Dans les pays occidentaux, les troubles de la personnalité touchent environ une personne sur dix. Pourquoi ces troubles, qui...

Quand le prince charmant se transforme en Mister Hyde, vous voilà aux prises avec un ennemi au quotidien: de quoi vous miner psychologiquement et physiquement. Aussi, il est crucial de l’identifier au plus vite, de cerner ses tactiques manipulatrices, son vocabulaire, ses agissements et de s’en...

Eddy M. Souffrant calls for a reassessment of the starting points of moral, social, and political philosophy that takes into account the actual living circumstances of persons living the 21st century.

The book draws on the 2007 Changing Academic Profession international survey in order to document the personal characteristics, career trajectories, sense of identity/commitment and job satisfaction of academics in 14 countries with different levels of economic and social development and different...

In criminals, social interest is deeply disturbed, or in some cases non-existent. Not interested in others, he can cooperate only to a certain degree. When this level is exhausted, and a problem is too difficult for him, he turns to crime. Chapter XXIII from "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler" - Volume 6 (11 pages).

The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind"...

Aversive behaviors have greater influence on social interactions than is generally acknowledged, determining personal satisfaction, interpersonal attraction, choice of partners, and the course of relationships. What motivates aversive behaviors? To what extent do they obtain desired outcomes? In what...

Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants. They paint a portrait of how the social context in which these workers lived played a critical role in their experiences of unemployment...

This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological...