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Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study and how past developments have led to progressions within science and research of the past century.
Full Description
In this book Frank Dumont presents personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study. This tract is imbued with historical perspectives that reveal the continuity in the evolving science and research of this discipline over the past century. The author places classic schemas and constructs, as well as current principles, in the context of their socio-political catalysts. He further relates this study of the person to life-span developmental issues and to cultural, gender-specific, trait-based, genetic/epigenetic, and evolutionary research findings. Personality psychology has recently reconciled itself to more modest paradigms for describing, explaining, and predicting human behaviour than it generated in the 19th and 20th centuries. This book documents that transformation, providing valuable information for health-service professionals as well as to teachers, researchers, and scientists.
Contents
1. Historical overview of personality psychology; 2. From illness models to wellness models of human nature; 3. Developmental perspectives on personality: from youth-based to lifespan models; 4. The biological substrate of personality; 5. Trait theories and the psychology of individual differences; 6. The puzzle of the self; 7. Culture and personality; 8. Gendered personality; 9. Emotions and rationality: a definition of the human; 10. Taking the measure of the human: benefits and inherent limitations of personality measures; 11. Personality change: means and possibilities; 12. Disordered personality: evolution of nosological systems; 13. Eight appendices: at the margins of personality psychology.