For More Information On Personality

For General Works on Personality

        Liebert, R. M., Liebert, L. L., and Spiegler, M. D. (1998). Liebert and Spiegler's personality: Strategies and issues (8^th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

For More on the Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

        Adler, A. (1956). The individual psychology of Alfred Adler (H. L. Ansbacher and R. R. Ansbacher, Eds.). New York: HarperCollins.

        Fine, R. (1990). The history of psychoanalysis. New York: Crossroad.

        Fisher, S., and Greenberg, R. P. (1985). Scientific credibility of Freud's theories and therapy. New York: Columbia University Press.

        Freud, A. (1936/1966). The ego and the mechanisms of defense. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

        Freud, S. (1940/1969). An outline of psychoanalysis. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Fromm, E. (1941). Escape from freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

        Horney, K. (1939). New ways in psychoanalysis. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Jung, C. G. (1958). The undiscovered self. New York: Mentor.

        Sullivan, H. S. (1953). The interpersonal theory of psychiatry. New York: W. W. Norton.

For More on the Dispositional Approach to Personality

        Allport, G. W. (1955). Becoming: Basic considerations for a psychology of personality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

        Eysenck, H. J., and Eysenck, M. W. (1985). Personality and individual differences. New York: Plenum.

        Graham, J. R. (1990). MMPI-2: Assessing personality and psychopathology. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Williams, J. E., Satterwhite, R. C., and Saiz, J. L. (1998). The importance of psychological traits: A cross-cultural study. New York: Plenum.

For More on the Behavioral Approach to Personality

        Bandura, A. (1998). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman.

        Bellack, A. S., and Hersen, M. (Ed.). (1988). Behavioral assessment: A practical handbook. New York: Pergamon.

        Schwarzer, R. (Ed.). (1992). Self-efficacy: Thought control of action. New York: Hemisphere.

        Skinner, B. F. (1953). Science and human behavior. New York: Macmillan.

For More on the Cognitive Approach to Personality

        Fransella, F., and Thomas, L. (Eds.). (1988). Experimenting with personal construct psychology. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

        Kelly, G. A. (1963). A theory of personality: The psychology of personal constructs. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Neimeyer, R. A. (1985). The development of personal construct psychology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

For More on the Humanistic Approach to Personality

        Baumeister, R. F. (Ed.). (1993). Self-esteem: The puzzle of low self-regard. New York: Plenum.

        Higgins, R. L., Snyder, C. R., and Berglas, S. (Eds.). (1990). Self-handicapping: The paradox that isn't. New York: Plenum.

        Levin, J. D. (1992). Theories of the self. Bristol, PA: Hemisphere.

        Rogers, C. R. (1980). A way of being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

        Snyder, M. (1986). Public appearances-private realities: The psychology of self-monitoring. New York: W. H. Freeman.

For More on the Biopsychological Approach to Personality

        Kagan, J., Snidman, N., Arcus, D., and Reznick, J. S. (1994). Galen's prophecy: Temperament in human nature. New York: Basic Books.

        Neubauer, P. B., and Neubauer, A. (1990). Nature's thumbprint: The new genetics of personality. Boston: Addison-Wesley.

        Sheldon, W. H., and Stevens, S. S. (1942). The varieties of temperament: A psychology of constitutional differences. New York: Harper.

For More on Contributors to the Study of Personality

        Alexander, F., Eisenstein, S., and Grotjahn, M. (Eds.). (1966). Psychoanalytic pioneers. New York: Basic Books.

        Allport, G. W. (1967). Autobiography. In E. G. Boring and G. Lindzey (Eds.), A history of psychology in autobiography, (Vol. 5, pp. 1_25). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

        Bjork, D. W. (1993). B. F. Skinner: A life. New York: Basic Books.

        Coles, R. (1970). Erik Erikson: The growth of his work. Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown.

        Evans, R. I. (1989). Albert Bandura: The man and his ideas-A dialogue. New York: Praeger.

        Eysenck, H. J. (1990). Rebel with a cause: The autobiography of Hans Eysenck. London: W. H. Allen.

        Furumoto, L. (1980). Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930). Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 55_68.

        Gay, P. (1988). Freud: A life for our time. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Hoffman, E. (1988). The right to be human: A biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Tarcher.

        Kirschenbaum, H. (1979). On becoming Carl Rogers. New York: Delacorte.

        Knapp, G. P. (1989). The art of living: Erich Fromm's life and works. New York: Peter Lang.

        McLynn, F. J. (1998). Carl Gustav Jung. New York: St. Martin's Press.

        Perry, H. S. (1982). Psychiatrist of America: The life of Harry Stack Sullivan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

        Quinn, S. (1987). A mind of her own: The life of Karen Horney. New York: Summit.

        Rattner, J. (1983). Alfred Adler. New York: Frederick Ungar.

        Stevens, A. (1990). On Jung. New York: Routledge.

        Young-Bruehl, E. (1988). Anna Freud. New York: Summit.