Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective

by Kennon M. Sheldon

Book Overview

Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences to understand "optimal human being" in general? In the process, the book supplies two new frameworks--one for viewing the human sciences as a group, and the other for viewing personality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080584189X
• ISBN13: 9780805841893
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

serious scholarship

I am only a third of the way through this book, but I felt compelled to let others know now that this book is serious, i.e., not a shallow self-help book. The author is a psychologist of personality, and he has carefully set personality into a broad realist context. His model immediately makes more sense of the human condition than almost every other psychology book I've read. If you care about what you are as a human and what your relation to the world is, then you will appreciate the information provided here.