Personality Theories: From Freud to Frankl

ISBN-10: 1979563101
ISBN-13: 9781979563109
Series: Personality Theories
Pages: 296
Language: English
Published: 2017-11-07
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: C. Boeree

Description

Personality psychology is the study of the person. As such, it is arguably the broadest, most "philosophical", branch of psychology. It involves an examination of the effects of genetics, the physical environment, culture, upbringing, trauma, pathology and more. In as much as this is clearly a huge undertaking, it is as much a matter of competing theories as it is of empirical research. For this reason, it remains a tradition in the field to look at various attempts over the last 100-plus years to tackle the issue: "What is it to be a person?" This book attempts to provide an open-minded review of the most important of these theories.