The study of lives : essays on personality in honor of Henry A. Murray / Robert W. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Robert W., author.

Series:

Atherton Press behavioral science series.

Atherton Press behavioral science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988.

Murray, Henry A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages).

Other Title:

study of lives

The study of lives

Place of Publication:

New York : Atherton Press, 1963.

Summary:

"This book of essays on personality has been given its title with a view to capturing something of the flavor of Henry A. Murray's thinking and influence on psychology. "The study of lives" is a phrase he has often used to describe his own work, and it suggests his central conviction that living beings must be studied as living wholes. Personality, he has repeatedly pointed out, is a dynamic process-a constantly changing configuration of thoughts, feelings, and actions occurring in a social environment and continuing throughout life. If small parts and short segments of human affairs have to be isolated for detailed scrutiny, they must still be understood as parts of a patterned organic system and as segments of a lifelong process. This has never meant for him that all research should take the form of collecting life histories, although his contributions along this line have been outstanding. It implies simply that isolating, fragmenting, and learning just a tiny bit about a lot of people tend to carry us away from what is most worth studying. The significant things about personality are part of the whole enterprise of living"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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