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Chapter 10: Personality


Suggested Readings

Chapter 10: Personality

Control Your Depression (1992, rev. ed.)

by Peter Lewinsohn, Ricardo Muñoz, Mary Youngren, and Antonnete Zeiss

New York: Fireside

Control Your Depression tells you how to reduce your depression by learning self-control techniques, relaxation training, pleasant activities, planning ahead, modifying self-defeating thinking patterns, and other behavioral/cognitive strategies.

Gentle Roads to Survival (1991)

by Andre Auw

Lower Lake, CA: Aslan

In Gentle Roads to Survival, Auw presents a guide to making self-healing choices in difficult circumstances. Auw, a psychologist who was a close associate of Carl Rogers, tells you how to become a survivor.

Man and His Symbols (1964)

by Carl Jung

Garden City, NY: Doubleday

This book includes the writings of Jung and four of his disciples; Jung’s ideas are applied to anthropology, literature, art, and dreams.

Man, the Manipulator (1972)

by Everett Shostrum

New York: Bantam

This paperback presents humanistic ideas about the route from manipulation to self-actualization. Many case studies are included.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
(1992, 11th ed.)

edited by Jack Kramer and Jane Conoley

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

This voluminous resource provides details about a wide range of personality tests.

Personality (1992, 2nd ed.)

by Christopher Peterson

Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace

This well-written textbook on personality includes many applications to real-world issues.

Personality Research, Methods, and Theory (1995)

Patrick Shrout and Susan Fiske (eds.)

Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

This volume examines current thinking about what can be known about personality, how concepts related to personality can best be measured, and how to approach research problems in specific areas of personality. Topics include the big-five trait factors, cultural dimensions, and conceputalizing and measuring self-esteem.

Psychological Testing of Hispanics (1992)

by Kurt Geisinger

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

This book addresses a number of issues related to the psychological testing of Hispanics, including testing in clinical settings and the workplace.

 

Internet Resources

http://austria-info.at/personen/freud/index.html

Learn all about Freud’s contribution to the psychology of personality.

http://www.cgjung.com/cgjung/

A home page dedicated to the works of C. G. Jung.

http://www.wynja.com/personality/theorists.html

This Web page explores the relation between personality and consciousness.

http://www.ahpweb.org/aboutahp/whatis.html

Humanism from Maslow through the 21st Century.

http://www.centacs.com/tests.htm

See how psychologists test the five factors of personality.

http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~kopeikin/121lec14.htm

Explore the evolution of psychological testing.

 


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