Customer Reviews

Theories of Personality

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This is a great book. It covers many different theories on how personality works from different psychological perspectives. Each section helps the reader understand the different views of each theory of personality and how it functions within the mind. One comes away from this book understanding a little bit more about the hows and whys of personality. A great introduction to psychology in general for anybody ranging from student to non-student, specialist to non-specialist. I highly recommend it.

I actually liked this text. Each chapter is broken into bios of the theorists and elements of their practice. They also combine various theorists if they have something in common or worked together.

I would definitely keep this text to use as a reference in future Psychology classes.

I would agree with the other reviews in that this book is an easy to read text with easy to understand explanations. However, there is no real world applicability. There are no case studies about real life people and how their personalities fit into their lives (i.e. type of career, choice of mate, type of friends they choose, how they view money etc.) not to mention that I think it would be interesting to see what other famous people have the same personality traits that we do (as in other texts in this subject area). In an abnormal psychology class I took, the text would refer to real studies of individuals and their psychopathologies that create their persona. To me this is what makes a great text - real life stories with real life people, what a revelation!!

This text also reminds me of a general psychology class, sans the history of psych. in that it covers many famous psychologists, i.e. Freud, Jung, Horney, Fromm etc. but it reads like a historiography of each psychologist, I know all about Freud and his theories, tell me how his view of personality is different than the other psychologists with real case studies, this text lacks the case study depth that other Psych. of Personality texts cover.. From a students point of view; teachers, choose a different text!

One of the best books on personality theories. I found mostly fascinating the sections concerning the current findings in personality research. Very serious, detailed and juicy material. A great book to buy and own.

This is a great book. It has each personality theorist followed by their biography, history, personality development. I am going to keep my book for future purposes.

this is a great introductory psych. book with tons of information well organized and very informative. Easy to understand and apply, with plenty of examples. Useful for any psych student!

Have a class and the teach basically said that the one set for the class by the school was a rip off (aka, way expensive), and if you are going to get the book get it on Amazon (plug), and if you really don't even want to pay that much, get the international version because it is all the same information. Good book.

Be aware before you order this that this is the international version of the textbook. On the back of the book it says that it contains content different from the North American version and that it is not to be sold in North America. There is nothing on this product page that tells you this and I am very disappointed that Amazon would sell me a book the publisher says not to. Thanks to Amazon I will now be behind in my class in the first week! Very frustrating, be sure to not order this if you live in North America.

I can open this book to any page and start reading up on a different interesting theory. The authors extensively describe the background of each theorist, and what their life and experiences were like, and how that could have influenced how they came to view the world the way they do. 23 major theories are discussed in depth, and philosophy is mixed in as well. Not another boring textbook by any means! If you're interested in learning what makes people the way they are, and want to learn about yourself along the way, you would enjoy this text.

This book is very good and helpful for a class I am taking. I would reccomend it to anyone interested in trying to figure out why their friends act the way they do.