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• Title:A history of personality psychology : theory, science, and research from Hellenism to the twenty-first century / Frank Dumont.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dumont, Frank, 1928-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF698 .D86 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Personality.
  Personality--Research--History.
  Personality--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: Personality
  Psychological Theory
  History of Medicine
  
• Description:xiii, 559 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Frank Dumont presents current personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study. This tract is imbued with historical perspectives that reveal the continuity in the evolving science and research of this discipline over the past century. The author places classic schemas and constructs, as well as current principles, in the context of their socio-political catalysts. He further relates this study of the person to life-span developmental issues and to cultural, gender-specific, trait-based, genetic/epigenetic, and evolutionary research findings. Personality psychology has recently reconciled itself to more modest paradigms for describing, explaining, and predicting human behaviour than it generated in the 19th and 20th centuries. This book documents that transformation, providing valuable information for health-service professionals as well as to teachers, researchers, and scientists. -- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780521116329 (hardback)
  0521116325 (hardback)
  
• Contents:1. Historical precursors of personality theory
  2. From illness to wellness models of human nature
  3. Developmental perspectives on personality: from youth-based to life-span models
  4. biology of personality
  5. Trait theories and the psychology of individual differences
  6. puzzle of the self
  7. Culture and personality
  8. Gendered personality
  9. Emotions and reasoning: a definition of the Human
  10. Taking the measure of the Human: benefits and inherent limitations of personality measures
  11. Can personality change? The possibilities of psychotherapeutics
  12. disordered personality: evolution of nosological systems
  13. Eight appendices: at the margins of personality psychology.