Personality: Strategies and Issues

By Robert M. Liebert and Michael D. Liebert, Robert M.; Spiegler

Book Overview

This sound, scholarly book continues to organize the diverse content of personality psychology in a meaningful way, taking care to present complex concepts in highly readable, accessible language. Using a single, overarching framework, the authors capture the flavor of each of four important conceptual strategies (psychoanalytic, dispositional, behavioral, and representational) and four fundamental issues (theory, assessment, research, and personality change) underlying contemporary personality psychology. The presentation of each strategy begins with an overview chapter that describes the strategy's basic assumptions and principles, as well as its respective intellectual school of thought. Then, after a more detailed presentation of the approaches that fall within the strategy, the authors conclude with a single chapter on the strategy's practical applications and limitations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534264182
• ISBN13: 9780534264185
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Superior comprehensive text on Personality

Liebert and Liebert's Personality is superb. Using four major strategies (Psychoanalytic, Dispositional, Environmental, Representational), the authors delve into each major theory as if they themselves had been its formulator. Then, they turn around and fervently critique the same theory they had lauded only a few pages earlier, all the while relating connections among seemingly fundamentally distinct theories. The effect is sensational. As someone who has very little background in Psychology and who is boning up on the subject in order to pursue a graduate career in the field, I thank The Liebert's for their hard work and diligent research. I look forward to the next edition.