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Theories Of Personality 10th Edition
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,Table of Contents

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE.

1. Personality and the Scientific Outlook.

PART II: PSYCHOANALYTIC AND NEOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES.

2. Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

3. Jung's Analytical Psychology.

4. Adler's Individual Psychology.

5. Horney's Social and Cultural Psychoanalysis.

6. Erikson's Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology.

7. Kohut's Self Psychology.

PART III: TRAIT PERSPECTIVES.

8. Allport's Trait Theory.

9. Cattell's Structure-Based Systems Theory.

10. Eysenck's Biological Typology.

PART IV: COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES.

11. Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs.
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,PART V: HUMANISTIC/EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVES.

12. Maslow's Self-Actualization Position.

13. Roger's Person-Centered Theory.

14. May's Existential-Analytic Position.

PART VI: SOCIAL-BEHAVIORISTIC PERSPECTIVES.

15. Skinner's Operant Analysis.

16. Rotter's Expectancy Reinforcement Value Model.

17. Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory.

PART VII: THE ROLE OF THE GRAND THEORIES IN
CONTEMPORARY PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY.

18. Theory and Research in Contemporary Personality Psychology.




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