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Tables of Contents for Theories of Personality
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chapter 1 The Nature of Personality Theory
1
26
Personality Theory and the History of Psychology
2
5
What Is Personality?
7
2
What Is a Theory?
9
5
A Theory of Personality
14
2
Personality Theory and Other Psychological Theories
16
2
The Comparison of Theories of Personality
18
9
Formal Attributes
19
1
Substantive Attributes
20
7
Emphasis on Psychodynamics
27
192
Chapter 2 Sigmund Freud's Classical Psychoanalytic Theory
30
48
Introduction and Context
30
1
Personal History
31
4
The Structure of Personality
35
3
The Id
35
1
The Ego
36
1
The Superego
37
1
The Dynamics of Personality
38
9
Instinct
39
4
The Distribution and Utilization of Psychic Energy
43
3
Anxiety
46
1
The Development of Personality
47
10
Identification
47
1
Displacement
48
2
The Defense Mechanisms of the Ego
50
2
Stages of Development
52
5
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
57
10
Freud's Scientific Credo
59
2
Free Association and Dream Analysis
61
2
Freud's Case Studies
63
3
Freud's Self-analysis
66
1
Current Research
67
6
Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation
67
4
New Look 3
71
2
Current Status and Evaluation
73
5
Chapter 3 Carl Jung's Analytic Theory
78
44
Introduction and Context
79
1
Personal History
80
4
The Structure of Personality
84
12
The Ego
84
1
The Personal Unconscious
84
1
The Collective Unconscious
85
5
The Self
90
1
The Attitudes
91
1
The Functions
91
3
Interactions Among the Systems of Personality
94
2
The Dynamics of Personality
96
5
Psychic Energy
97
2
The Principle of Equivalence
99
1
The Principle of Entropy
100
1
The Use of Energy
101
1
The Development of Personality
101
8
Casuality Versus Teleology
101
1
Synchronicity
102
1
Heredity
103
1
Stages of Development
103
2
Progression and Regression
105
1
The Individuation Process
106
1
The Transcendent Function
106
1
Sublimation and Repression
107
1
Symbolization
107
2
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
109
4
Experimental Studies of Complexes
109
1
Case Studies
110
1
Comparative Studies of Mythology, Religion, and the Occult Sciences
110
2
Dreams
112
1
Current Research
113
5
Jung's Typology
113
2
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
115
3
Current Status and Evaluation
118
4
Chapter 4 Social Psychological Theories: Adler, Fromm, Horney, and Sullivan
122
51
Introduction and Context
123
1
ALFRED ADLER
124
16
Fictional Finalism
128
1
Striving for Superiority
129
1
Inferiority Feelings and Compensation
130
1
Social Interest
131
1
Style of Life
132
3
The Creative Self
135
1
Neurosis
136
1
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
137
1
Order of Birth and Personality
137
1
Early Memories
138
1
Childhood Experiences
139
1
Current Research
139
1
Social Interest
139
1
ERICH FROMM
140
6
KAREN HORNEY
146
7
Horney and Freud
147
2
Basic Anxiety
149
1
The Neurotic Needs
150
2
Three Solutions
152
1
Alienation
152
1
HARRY STACK SULLIVAN
153
20
The Structure of Personality
157
4
Dynamisms
157
2
Personifications
159
1
Cognitive Processes
160
1
The Dynamics of Personality
161
2
Tension
161
1
Energy Transformations
162
1
The Development of Personality
163
4
Stages of Development
163
3
Determiners of Development
166
1
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
167
2
The Interview
167
1
Research on Schizophrenia
168
1
Current Status and Evaluation
169
4
Chapter 5 Erik Erikson and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
173
46
Introduction and Context
174
1
Ego Psychology
175
4
Anna Freud
176
3
Object Relations
179
4
Heinz Kohut
181
2
The Merging of Psychoanalysis and Psychology
183
7
George Klein
184
3
Robert White
187
3
ERIK H. ERIKSON
190
29
Personal History
190
5
The Psychosocial Theory of Development
195
10
I. Basic Trust Versus Basic Mistrust
196
2
II. Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt
198
1
III. Initiative Versus Guilt
199
1
IV. Industry Versus Inferiority
200
1
V. Identity Versus Identity Confusion
201
2
VI. Intimacy Versus Isolation
203
1
VII. Generativity Versus Stagnation
203
1
VIII. Integrity Versus Despair
204
1
A New Conception of the Ego
205
2
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
207
6
Case Histories
207
1
Play Situations
207
4
Anthropological Studies
211
1
Psychohistory
211
2
Current Research
213
4
Identity Status
214
1
Other Stages
215
1
Cross-Cultural Status
216
1
Current Status and Evaluation
217
2
Emphasis on Personality Structure
219
172
Chapter 6 Henry Murray's Personology
221
46
Introduction and Context
222
1
Personal History
223
5
The Structure of Personality
228
5
Definition of Personality
228
1
Proceedings and Serials
229
1
Serial Programs and Schedules
230
1
Abilities and Achievements
231
1
Establishments of Personality
231
2
The Dynamics of Personality
233
11
Need
234
5
Press
239
2
Tension Reduction
241
1
Thema
241
1
Need Integrate
242
1
Unity-Thema
242
1
Regnant Processes
243
1
Vector-Value Scheme
243
1
The Development of Personality
244
7
Infantile Complexes
246
3
Genetic-Maturational Determinants
249
1
Learning
249
1
Sociocultural Determinants
249
1
Uniqueness
250
1
Unconscious Processes
250
1
The Socialization Process
251
1
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
251
6
Intensive Study of Small Numbers of Normal Subjects
252
1
The Diagnostic Council
252
1
Instruments of Personality Measurement
252
2
Representative Studies
254
3
Current Research
257
6
McClelland and Social Motives
257
2
Interactionism
259
2
"Where Is the Person?"
261
1
Psychobiography
261
2
Current Status and Evaluation
263
4
Chapter 7 Gordon Allport and the Individual
267
43
Introduction and Context
267
1
Personal History
268
5
The Structure and Dynamics of Personality
273
12
Personality, Character, and Temperament
274
1
Trait
275
4
Intentions
279
1
The Proprium
280
1
Functional Autonomy
281
4
The Unity of Personality
285
1
The Development of Personality
285
4
The Infant
285
1
Transformation of the Infant
286
1
The Adult
287
2
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
289
9
Idiographic Versus Nomothetic
289
2
Direct and Indirect Measures of Personality
291
1
Studies of Expressive Behavior
292
5
Letters from Jenny
297
1
Current Research
298
7
Interactionism and the "Person-Situation Debate" Revisited
298
2
Idiographics and Idiothetics
300
2
Allport Revisited
302
3
Current Status and Evaluation
305
5
Chapter 8 Raymond Cattell's Factor-Analytic Trait Theory
310
50
Introduction and Context
310
4
Factor Analysis
311
3
Personal History
314
3
The Nature of Personality: A Structure of Traits
317
17
Traits
318
1
Ability and Temperament Traits
319
4
The Specification Equation
323
3
Dynamic Traits
326
6
Cattell and Freud
332
2
The Development of Personality
334
5
Heredity-Environment Analysis
335
1
Learning
335
2
Integration of Maturation and Learning
337
1
The Social Context
337
2
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
339
6
A Factor-Analytic Study of a Single Individual
340
3
The VIDAS Systems Model of Personality
343
2
Current Research
345
11
The Big Five Factors of Personality
345
3
Behavior Genetics
348
4
Evolutionary Personality Theory
352
4
Current Status and Evaluation
356
4
Chapter 9 Hans Eysenck's Biological Trait Theory
360
31
Introduction and Context
360
5
Personal History
365
2
The Description of Temperament
367
6
Extraversion and Neuroticism
367
4
Psychoticism
371
2
Causal Models
373
7
Eysenck (1957)
374
2
Eysenck (1967)
376
4
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
380
5
Current Research
385
4
Gray
385
2
Zuckerman
387
2
Current Status and Evaluation
389
2
Emphasis on Perceived Reality
391
99
Chapter 10 George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory
394
40
Introduction and Context
395
1
KURT LEWIN
396
14
The Structure of Personality
397
7
The Life Space
398
1
Differentiation
399
1
Connections Between Regions
400
3
The Number of Regions
403
1
The Person in the Environment
403
1
The Dynamics of Personality
404
6
Energy
405
1
Tension
405
1
Need
405
1
Tension and Motoric Action
406
1
Valence
406
1
Force or Vector
407
1
Locomotion
408
2
The Development of Personality
410
1
GEORGE KELLY
410
24
Personal History
411
2
Basic Assumptions
413
5
Constructive Alternativism
413
1
Man-the-Scientist
414
1
Focus on the Construer
415
1
Motivation
416
1
Being Oneself
417
1
Personal Constructs
418
2
Scales
419
1
The Fundamental Postulate and Its Corollaries
420
5
The Continuum of Cognitive Awareness
425
1
Constructs About Change
426
1
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
427
2
Current Research
429
1
Current Status and Evaluation
430
4
Chapter 11 Carl Rogers's Person-Centered Theory
434
56
Introduction and Context
435
2
KURT GOLDSTEIN
437
7
The Structure of the Organism
439
1
The Dynamics of the Organism
440
3
Equalization
440
1
Self-Actualization
441
1
"Coming to Terms" with the Environment
442
1
The Development of the Organism
443
1
ABRAHAM MASLOW
444
10
Assumptions about Human Nature
446
2
Hierarchy of Needs
448
4
Syndromes
452
1
Self-Actualizers
453
1
CARL ROGERS
454
36
Personal History
458
3
The Structure of Personality
461
3
The Organism
461
2
The Self
463
1
Organism and Self: Congruence and Incongruence
463
1
The Dynamics of Personality
464
2
The Development of Personality
466
5
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
471
9
Qualitative Studies
472
1
Content Analysis
472
1
Rating Scales
473
2
Q-Technique Studies
475
5
Experimental Studies of the Self-Concept
480
1
Other Empirical Approaches
480
1
Current Research
480
5
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
481
2
Self-Discrepancy Theory
483
2
The Dynamic Self-Concept
485
1
Current Status and Evaluation
485
5
Emphasis on Learning
490
139
Chapter 12 B. F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning
492
43
Introduction and Context
492
1
Personal History
493
5
Some General Considerations
498
6
Lawfulness of Behavior
498
2
Functional Analysis
500
4
The Structure of Personality
504
2
The Dynamics of Personality
506
2
The Development of Personality
508
15
Classical Conditioning
508
1
Operant Conditioning
509
3
Schedules of Reinforcement
512
1
Superstitious Behavior
513
2
Secondary Reinforcement
515
1
Stimulus Generalization and Discrimination
516
1
Social Behavior
517
2
Abnormal Behavior
519
4
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
523
4
Current Research
527
1
Current Status and Evaluation
528
7
Chapter 13 Dollard and Miller's Stimulus-Response Theory
535
55
Introduction and Context
535
4
Personal Histories
539
5
An Illustrative Experiment
544
6
The Structure of Personality
550
1
The Dynamics of Personality
551
1
The Development of Personality
551
10
Innate Equipment
552
1
The Learning Process
552
2
Secondary Drive and the Learning Process
554
1
Higher Mental Processes
555
2
The Social Context
557
1
Critical Stages of Development
558
3
Applications of the Model
561
10
Unconscious Processes
561
2
Conflict
563
3
How Neuroses Are Learned
566
3
Psychotherapy
569
2
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
571
2
Current Research
573
13
Wolpe
573
6
Seligman
579
7
Current Status and Evaluation
586
4
Chapter 14 Albert Bandura and Social Learning Theories
590
39
Introduction and Context
590
1
ALBERT BANDURA
591
25
Personal History
593
1
Reconceptualization of Reinforcement
594
2
Principles of Observational Learning
596
4
Attentional Processes
597
1
Retention Processes
598
1
Production Processes
598
1
Motivational Processes
598
2
Reciprocal Determinism
600
3
The Self-System
603
3
Self-Observation
604
1
Judgmental Process
604
1
Self-Reaction
604
2
Applications to Therapy
606
1
Self-Efficacy
607
5
Characteristic Research and Research Methods
612
4
WALTER MISCHEL
616
13
Cognitive Person Variables
619
1
The Consistency Paradox and Cognitive Prototypes
620
2
A Cognitive-Affective System Theory of Personality
622
4
Current Status and Evaluation
626
3
Perspectives and Conclusions
629
23
Chapter 15 Personality Theory in Perspective
630
22
The Comparison of Theories of Personality
631
11
Some Reflections on Current Personality Theory
642
6
Theoretical Synthesis Versus Theoretical Multiplicity
648
4
References
652
70
Photo Credits
722
1
Name Index
723
7
Subject Index
730