Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Albert Ellis; Mike Abrams; Lidia Abrams

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 721
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
1 - The Study of Personality
2 - Historical Perspectives on Personality
3 - Personality Research
4 - Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious
5 - Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice
6 - Freud’s Followers
7 - Psychiatric and Medical Models
8 - The Neo-Freudians
9 - Personality and Traits
10 - Behaviorist Views of Personality
11 - Humanistic Views of Personality
12 - Carl Rogers and Humanist Psychotherapy
13 - Early Cognitive Views of Personality
14 - Biology, Genetics, and the Evolution of Personality
15 - Abnormal Personality and Personality Disorders
16 - Albert Ellis and the Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory of Personality
17 - Religious, New Age, and Traditional Approaches to Personality
Biographical Index
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Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors