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Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives

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The people at Sage were kind enough to give me a review copy at APA and I was pleasantly surprised. This is by far the best I have read by Ellis and among the better texts that I have reviewed. Despite its sometimes cynical tone when discussing some classic figures in personality, it is very balanced and among the most comprehensive in the field. The book is exceptionally well researched and it succeeds in clarifying many complex topics that many other texts avoid or cover superficially. I will likely adopt this book for the Spring semester.

It covers everything in detail and still is a pleasure to read. With two degrees in psychology, I learned a great deal from this readable and entertaining book. If you want to learn about personality, human development, clinical psych, this is the book.

very comprehensive, informative and entertaining introduction to personality theories. i've taught Introduction to Personality Theories a number of times over the years, and have adopted this text for the course next semester. I'm really looking forward to sharing it with my students.

I found this text to be quite comprehensive, amazingly written based on extensive research. Topics from Freud, to studies of the Enneagram personality types are covered. This is an absolutely phenomenal addition to any psychology library and a wonderful tool in the ever expanding study of psychology. The authors truly embraced the unpredictable and erratic action of human behavior.

Such a fine book that I have bought two. One for my library and the other to satisfy my irrational desire to underline what I consider important in the text. Such a shame that even when the truth seems to be presented to us in a very factual manner we still choose to go on thinking in our very irrational ways. In the future the most important thing to learn in Psychology will be how to get people to use the information available to them rather than stupidly choosing to believe the "crazy" ideas they have acquired from their parents, religion, culture, fellow students,television etc. etc..