The Seventh Edition of Personality Theories continues its sound tradition of providing accurate and thorough coverage via an easily accessible text enhanced by pedagogical features and a focus on critical thinking. Personality Theories is designed both to explain the major personality theories and to stimulate critical thinking about them. Each chapter focuses on one theory or group of theories and provides brief biographies that shed light on how the theories were formed. Engler also provides criteria for evaluating each theory and cites current research pertaining to that theory, in addition to integrating multicultural and gender-related issues throughout the text.
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"This text is well organized and is very readable.""The Chapters are well organized, and the coverage is good [...] this makes the text standout from some others that are not as well written."
"The text is exceptionally well-organized.""The arrangement of the material results in a meaningful and flowing exposition of the theorists, the theoretical constructs, relevant application/practical applications, and examples of empirical support.""I believe students will find this text easy to read and intellectually engaging.""Few texts provide the depth of material that this text offers."
"If an instructor is looking for a solid, comprehensive view of these theories, I do think that this text could be a very appropriate option."
"The layout is one of the better ones I've seen and reviewed. It is attractive[...]. Great Layout.""Overall, I thoroughly liked what I saw." --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
"The text is exceptionally well-organized.""The arrangement of the material results in a meaningful and flowing exposition of the theorists, the theoretical constructs, relevant application/practical applications, and examples of empirical support.""I believe students will find this text easy to read and intellectually engaging.""Few texts provide the depth of material that this text offers."
"If an instructor is looking for a solid, comprehensive view of these theories, I do think that this text could be a very appropriate option."
"The layout is one of the better ones I've seen and reviewed. It is attractive[...]. Great Layout.""Overall, I thoroughly liked what I saw." --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Barbara Engler was a professor of psychology at Union County College in Cranford, NJ, where she taught the undergraduate personality theory course for 25 years. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Drew University in 1969. Dr. Engler has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson and Seton Hall Universities and has contributed articles and reviews to such publications as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Contemporary Psychology.
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This review is from: Personality Theories: An Introduction (Social Science College Title) (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this book, that I bought as a text book for my Theories of Personality Master Degree course. It is a University level text that explores many of the psychological theories and the lives of the men and women that created them, with a focus on the twentieth century and american psychology.Starting with the obvious Freud and Jung, the fathers of psychoanalysis, Engler moves into exploring many of the later development of modern psychology and its personality theories. We find the theories of Fromm, Erikson, Klein as offshoots of psychoanalytic theory as well as very condesed and clear explanations of behaviorism, the cognitive approach, the existential approach and more. What i loved about this book (one of the few books that i have decided to keep rather than resell after class) is that all approaches are so well explained, with a neutral stance, not biased towards one approach or the other. Engler presents all theories with great respect and you can really tell that she honors and loves all of these very wonderful great thinkers of our time....and as a result, you end up loving them too! Studying this text was a real pleasure...I would recommend this book to any University thinking about adopting it as well as to people that just want to learn more about western psychology of the twentieth century. A really pleasant text!
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A great book...to study & to refer to...,
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This review is from: Personality Theories 6th Edition (Hardcover)
I used this text in my freshman PSYC studies & thoroughly enjoyed it! It's a great jumping off point for a broad scope of the basic PSYC concepts in assessing the human personality (on individual scales, cultural scales, attachment scales, etc.). I enjoyed the text so much that I decided to keep it for reference!
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psychoanalytic social psychology, existential psychoanalysis, eight consciousnesses, differences among personality theories, other philosophical assumptions, uniqueness versus universality, proactivity versus reactivity, their theories address, own philosophical assumptions, emotional duality, basic philosophical issues, central dispositions, fictional finalisms, generative adults, constructive alternativism, neurotic trends, validating evidence, agentic perspective, source traits, infrahuman species, personality theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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psychoanalytic social psychology, existential psychoanalysis, eight consciousnesses, differences among personality theories, other philosophical assumptions, uniqueness versus universality, proactivity versus reactivity, their theories address, own philosophical assumptions, emotional duality, basic philosophical issues, central dispositions, fictional finalisms, generative adults, constructive alternativism, neurotic trends, validating evidence, agentic perspective, source traits, infrahuman species, personality theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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