Personality and Personal Growth

by James Fadiman and Robert Frager

Book Overview

Understand personality perspectives through a theoretical lens. Through a set of different theoretical lenses, Personality and Personal Growth gives students the opportunity to understand their own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131444514
• ISBN13: 9780131444515
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 10.3"

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Personality and Personal Growth

The greats in Transpersonal Psychology and regular psychology brought together offer diverse approaches to personal growth and healing.

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Personailtty and personal growth

This text is organized in a way that allows the reader to examine each personality theory in the context in which the theorist lived. The authors provide a historical context and present the antecedents that helped to shape each theorist's own personal growth. Students began to understand how and why psychological theory was shaped during a particular period in history and the disciplines that provide the framework of theory development. Each theorist is presented as a person whose life and experiences contributed to their subjective and objective methods used in the development of their paarticular theory. The reader is encouraged to crtical evaluate the theory and the theorists within an historical context. and to engage in self examination as well. It is an excelent text for students who are beganning to study theorys of personality.