Personality Theories: An Introduction

by Barbara Engler

Book Overview

Presents the major features of each personality theory, offers criteria to guide students' evaluation of the theories and provides activities aimed at stimulating critical thinking. A revised... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547148348
• ISBN13: 9780547148342
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Overview of Personality Theories

Purchased as review of the topic. Provides excellent information, well organized, author relates each theory to the prior and often references future developments as she works through the timeline of the development of personality and the many theories. Many helpful additions such as thinking topics, reviews, and other student related info.

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A great book...to study & to refer to...

I used this text in my freshman PSYC studies & thoroughly enjoyed it! It's a great jumping off point for a broad scope of the basic PSYC concepts in assessing the human personality (on individual scales, cultural scales, attachment scales, etc.). I enjoyed the text so much that I decided to keep it for reference!

A very enjoyable study text

I really enjoyed this book, that I bought as a text book for my Theories of Personality Master Degree course. It is a University level text that explores many of the psychological theories and the lives of the men and women that created them, with a focus on the twentieth century and american psychology.Starting with the obvious Freud and Jung, the fathers of psychoanalysis, Engler moves into exploring many of the later development of modern psychology and its personality theories. We find the theories of Fromm, Erikson, Klein as offshoots of psychoanalytic theory as well as very condesed and clear explanations of behaviorism, the cognitive approach, the existential approach and more.What i loved about this book (one of the few books that i have decided to keep rather than resell after class) is that all approaches are so well explained, with a neutral stance, not biased towards one approach or the other. Engler presents all theories with great respect and you can really tell that she honors and loves all of these very wonderful great thinkers of our time....and as a result, you end up loving them too! Studying this text was a real pleasure...I would recommend this book to any University thinking about adopting it as well as to people that just want to learn more about western psychology of the twentieth century. A really pleasant text!