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1 online resource |
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Psychology library editions. Personality ; volume 10 |
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Psychology library editions. Personality ; v. 10
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; How Many Intrapsychic Theories Are There?; I: Theories Based on Motivation; 2 Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: A Theory About Wishes; Updating the Theory; Energizing Human Behavior; Sexism; Translation Problems; How to Present Freud's Theory?; Box: Freud's Life; The Basic Assumptions; The Id, Ego, and Superego; Development; Anxiety; Box: A Research Study on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Paranoia; The Defense Mechanisms; The Psychosexual Stages |
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The Rate of Psychological FunctioningDisturbed Behavior; Box: The Case of an Exhibitionist; Psychotherapy; Box: Is Freud Dead?; Free Association; Transference; Interpretation; Discussion; 3 Modifications to Freudian Ideas; Carl Jung's Concept of the Unconscious; O. Hobart Mowrer; The Major Needs; Box: A Research Study on Mowrer's Theory; Murray's Classification of Needs; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; Box: A Research Study on Maslow's Needs; Box: Can everyone become Self-Actualized?; Henri Laborit; Existential Psychotherapists; The Psychosexual Stages; Box: A Study using Loevinger's Stages |
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DiscussionII: Theories based on Cognition; 4 George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory: A Theory of Cognition; The Basic Elements; Box: George Kelly; Properties of the Poles of Constructs; Box: The Rep Test; Properties of Constructs; Range and Focus of Convenience; Superordinate and Subordinate Constructs; Permeable and Impermeable Constructs; Propositional, Constellatory, and Preemptive Constructs; Preverbal Constructs; Core and Peripheral Constructs; Properties of Construction Systems; Suspended Sets of Constructs; Tight and Loose Constructs; What Happened to Freudian Concepts? |
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The UnconsciousDefense Mechanisms; Combined Concepts; Properties of the Perceptual Field; Redefining Old Terms; Threat; Guilt; Anxiety; Aggression; Hostility; Kelly's System Principle; Psychological Processes; The Creativity Cycle; The CPC Cycle; Content of Construction Systems; Dichotomous Versus Continuous Constructs; Disturbed Behavior; Box: Are Personal Constructs Dichotomous?; Constructive Alternativism: A Philosophy; Comments; 5 Cognitive Theories: Alternative Views; Leon Festinger; Box: A Research Study on Cognitive Dissonance; Discussion; Prescott Lecky; Discussion; Lars-Gunnar Lundh |
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Paul McReynoldsAnxiety; Schizophrenia and Neurosis; Box: Schizophrenics As Augmenters; Discussion; George Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram; Psychopathology; Individual Differences; Discussion; Jean Piaget; Conclusions; III: Holistic Views; 6 The Holistic Theory of Andras Angyal; What Is a Holistic Theory?; Box: Andras Angyal; The Biosphere; System Properties; Personality as a Time Gestalt; Systems and Integration; Box: The Concept of Integration; Disturbed Behavior; The Pattern of Vicarious Living; Box: The Buddhist Notion of ""No-Self; The Pattern of Noncommitment; Disscussion |
| Summary |
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 is introduced. It focuses on Freud, Kelly and Angyal: Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality based on desires, Kelly's personal construct theory for thinking, and Angyal's holistic concepts of personality. Each theory is given a detailed analysis in separate chapters. Freud's psychoanalytic theory is cast as a theory of motivation, Kelly's personal construct theory as a theory of cognition, and then it is noted that there is no comprehensive theory of personality based on emotion. Although Angyal's holistic theory is rarely described in modern textbooks, Lester includes this because none of the other holistic theorists rival Angyal in their range of hypothetical constructs or descriptive terms. Then, in sections dealing with alternative viewpoints, the author shows how other personality theorists actually endorse and expand upon the ideas expressed by the aforementioned three, albeit with different terminology. Recognizing the diversity of holistic views in theories of personality, several counterpoint chapters are devoted to the holistic ideas. Lester separates these into three major areas: theorists who have focused on the split in the mind between the real and ideal self; recent theorists who explore the possibility that the mind is a 'multiplicity of selves'; and theorists who, though not having their viewpoints sufficiently articulated in the literature, are still well established in the history of psychology. Other features include a presentation of the material in modern viewpoints, instead of the precise and perhaps outdated style as written by the individual theorists, and boxed highlights in each section, providing students with practical capsule information for easy reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2019) |
| Subject |
Personality.
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Personality
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Personality
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429026027 |
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0429026021 |
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