Personality Theories

Critical Perspectives

Albert Ellis author Mike Abrams author Lidia Dengelegi Abrams author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:2nd Oct '08

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Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.

Features and Benefits:

  • Helps students develop the scientific thinking required to evaluate current and forthcoming theories
  • Encourages the reader to re-examine preexisting theories
  • Provides the missing link between previously disparate disciplines of abnormal and normal personality theories, a feature especially important to students in graduate clinical programs 
  • Prepares the upper-level student for the growing trend in clinical programs to link human behavior, personality, and psychopathology to the neurological substrates
  • Encourages more focus on relevant theories than on the biographies of those who developed them

Intended Audience:
This enlightening text will provide insight into personality theory for students in courses on personality. It should be required reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, and social work.

"Finally, an empirically based, critical examination of personality theories." -- Richard W. Williams, Ph.D.
This textbook is reasonably priced and has excellent, up to date content. -- Dr Colleen McDonough * drupal *
This book is comprehensive yet accessible for undergrad students, and the critical insights provided are extremely important to help them develop their own critical thought, as well as better understanding personality theories. -- Dr Maria Francisca Rebocho * drupal *
I adopted it for last semester (spring) & will be using it again this fall 2012 because it has contents for graduate level students. -- Dr Mojisola Tiamiyu * drupal *
This is a brilliant pieace of work; very relevant to our integrative course. -- Dr Oby Osuchukwu * drupal *
All of students attending psychology course have to read this book. People who want to read this book do not have any trouble to understand what it says. Eventually, it is well designed and qualified. -- Mr Azkan Çikrikçi * drupal *
The book is well-written and accessible, but is a bit dated - for example doesn′t really acknowledge current thinking about ′subpersonalities′. -- Mr John Perry * drupal *
A veery useful book to inform my sessions, but too complex for nursing students to read as just one of many on a reading list. this decision is all about the students abilities not about the book.

I found the book well laid out and very informative. -- Mrs Anne Fenech * drupal *
An excellent and in-depth text that provides information across a wide range of perspectives. Recommended for general wider reading to students. -- Mrs Jackie Chivers * drupal *
A very useful book for my students which I am adding to my reading list -- Ms Denise Aspinall * drupal *
Easy to follow and teach from -- Ms Maritza Santana * drupal *

ISBN: 9781412914222

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1130g

720 pages