Higher Education
Author(s): Barbara Engler
ISBN: 9789355732255
Edition: 9th
© Year : 2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Trim Size : 241 x 181 mm
The Ninth Edition of PERSONALITY THEORIES continues to provide thorough coverage enhanced with helpful learning aids, opportunities for honing critical thinking skills, and integration of multicultural and gender-related issues. Each chapter focuses on one theory or group of theories and includes brief biographies that shed light on how the theories were formed. The author also provides criteria for evaluating each theory and cites current relevant research. A final chapter on Zen Buddhism covers a major non-Western theory of personality and serves to distinguish this program in the field.
chapter opens with a list called “Your Goals for This Chapter” and ends with a “Summary,”
whose items are keyed to each goal.
material in the chapter and reconsider it or apply it critically. The “Personal Experiences”
feature offers still another opportunity for students to thoughtfully consider the material.
cover) give students an opportunity to compare and contrast their own philosophical
views with those of the theorist at hand
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Evaluating Personality Theories
CHAPTER 2 Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
CHAPTER 3 Analytical Psychology: Carl Jung
CHAPTER 4 Interpsychic Theories: Alfred Adler, Harry Stack Sullivan
CHAPTER 5 Psychoanalytic Social Psychology: Karen Horney, Erich Fromm
CHAPTER 6 Ego Analytic Psychology: Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, Dan McAdams
CHAPTER 7 Human Relations: Object Relations Theory, Relational-Cultural Theory
CHAPTER 8 Experimental Analysis of Behavior: John Dollard and Neal Miller, B. F. Skinner
CHAPTER 9 Social Learning Theories: Albert Bandura, Julian Rotter, Walter Mischel
CHAPTER 10 Traits and Personology: Gordon Allport, Henry Murray
CHAPTER 11 Factor Analytic, Genetic and Evolutionary Theories: Raymond Cattell, The Big Five Personality Traits, Genetic and Evolutionary Developments
CHAPTER 12 Biological Traits: Hans Eysenck
CHAPTER 13 Humanism: Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers
CHAPTER 14 Existential Psychoanalysis: Rollo May
CHAPTER 15 Personal Constructs: George Kelly 377
CHAPTER 16 Cognitive-Behavioral Theories: Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, Arnold Lazarus
CHAPTER 17 Zen Buddhism
Barbara Engler
Barbara Engler was a professor of psychology at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey, where she taught the undergraduate personality theory course for 25 years. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Drew University in 1969. Dr. Engler has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson and Seton Hall Universities and has contributed articles and reviews to such publications as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Contemporary Psychology.
