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Beyond Freedom and Dignityby B.F. Skinner
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 9.40In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. more...
On Personalityby Peter Goldie
Routledge 2004; US$ 21.95A thoughtful and stimulating look at this widely-used but little understood phenomenon, personality. Drawing on a great range of philosophers, novelists and films Peter Goldie looks at the concept of personality. more...
Persons in Contextby Yuichi Shoda
Guilford Press 2007; US$ 45.00A major development in psychological science is increased recognition that persons and environments constitute dynamically interacting systems. This book presents advances from internationally renowned researchers in personality, social, cognitive, developmental, and cultural psychology, and other fields, who construct a science of the individual by studying individuals in context. Contributors build on seminal work by Walter Mischel (especially his citation classic, "Toward a Cognitive Social Learning Reconceptualization of Personality," reprinted in the volume). A commentary from Mischel himself places the contributions in historical perspective and articulates the novel portrait of human nature that they yield. more...
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personalityby W. Ronald Fairbairn
Routledge 1952; US$ 42.50First published in 1952, W.R.D. Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality re-oriented psychoanalysis by centering human development on the infant's innate need for relationships, describing the process of splitting and the internal dynamic relationship between ego and object. His elegant theory is still a vital framework of psychoanalytic theory and practice, infant research, group relations and family therapy. This classic collection of papers, available for the first time in paperback, has a new introduction by David Scharff and Elinor Fairbairn Birtles which sets Fairbairn's highly original work in context, provides an overview of object relations theory, and traces modern developments, lanuched by Fairbairn's discoveries. more...
Construction of Personalityby Sarah E. Hampson
Routledge 1988; US$ 42.99This second edition, substantially revised, provides an introduction to current theory and research in the psychology of personality and examines this work from the perspective of contructivism. more...
Personality at Workby H. J. Eysenck; Adrian Furnham
Routledge 1994; US$ 42.50Provides a comprehensive, critical, and contemporary review of what is known about how individual differences determine or affect behaviour in key areas in the work place such as motivation, job statisfaction and productivity. more...
Inquiring Manby Donald Bannister; Fay Fransella
Routledge 1986; US$ 29.95A completely revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to Kelly's theory of Personal Constructs. more...
Psychology of Personal Constructsby George Kelly
Routledge 1991; US$ 145.00Unavailable for many years this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder. The first volume presents the theory of personal construct psychology. more...
Philosophical Dimensions of Personal Construct Psychologyby Bill Warren
Routledge 1998; US$ 193.00This book traces the philosophical history of Personal Construct Psychology through the broad and complex tradition of phenomenology and thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel and Heidegger. more...
International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychologyby Fay Fransella
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 250.00Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) was devised by George Kelly in 1955 as a new method in psychotherapy. Since then, his techniques have been applied widely throughout psychology and beyond, to include areas as diverse as nursing, conflict resolution, sociology and literary criticism. This handbook brings together, for the first time, a wide range of theories, research and practice that have grown out of Kelly's original concept. It provides a reference on what has been done and insights into how further applications can be made within psychology and psychotherapy, and also informs non-psychologists and those unfamiliar with Kelly's techniques of its usefulness and applicability in other disciplines. * This is the only comprehensive... more...