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Pioneers of personality science : autobiographical perspectives / Stephen Strack, Bill N. Kinder, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychologists--Biography.
- Psychologists.
- Personality--History.
- Personality.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics.
- Sixteen biographical chapters written by the pioneers of personality assessment trace the development of the field. With accompanying photos and a concise bibliography from each contributor, this one-of-a-kind compilation of the past, present, and future of personology chronicles the following leaders: Jack Block, Arnold H. Buss, James N. Butcher, Richard Dana, Leonard Handler, Robert R. Holt, Wayne Holtzman, Samuel Karson, Paul M. Lerner, Jane Loevinger, Joseph Masling, Edwin S. Shneidman, Norman Sundberg, Irving B. Weiner, Marvin Zuckerman.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Irving B. Weiner
- Preface / Stephen Strack and Bill N. Kinder
- My unexpected life / Jack Block
- Pathways / Arnold H. Buss
- Discontinuities, side steps, and finding a proper place: an autobiographical account / James N. Butcher
- A report on myself: the science and/or art of assessment / Richard H. Dana
- A psychologist grows in Brooklyn: reflections from the past / Leonard Handler
- A lifelong attempt to understand and assess personality / Robert R. Holt
- Over half a century of playing with inkblots and other wondrous pursuits / Wayne H. Holtzman
- Have PhD, will travel / Samuel Karson
- From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio / Paul M. Lerner
- Confessions of an iconoclast: at home on the fringe / Jane Loevinger
- Speak, memory, or goodbye, Columbus / Joseph Masling
- A blessed and charmed personal odyssey / Theodore Millon
- Ideas from my undergraduate years: an autobiographical fragment / Edwin S. Shneidman
- Chance and choice: change and continuity: that's life / Norman D. Sundberg
- The shaping of personality: genes, environments, and chance encounters / Marvin Zuckerman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826132057
- OCLC:
- 61456763
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