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A History of Personality Psychology

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 often 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 behavior than it generated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book documents that transformation, providing valuable information for health service professionals as well as to teachers, researchers, and scientists.

Frank Dumont, now Professor Emeritus, was Full Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. program in his field at McGill University. He was the co-editor of Six Therapists and One Client (2000) and a co-editor of Corsini's The Dictionary of Psychology (1999). He gratefully acknowledges that much of this book on personality psychology was researched and drafted while he was Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University (2005?2006).

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A History of Personality Psychology

Theory, Science, and Research from Hellenism to the Twenty-First Century

Frank Dumont

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Contents

List of tables and figures Preface

page viii ix

1 Historical precursors of personality theory

1

2 From illness to wellness models of human nature

35

3 Developmental perspectives on personality: from

youth-based to life-span models

75

4 The biology of personality

115

5 Trait theories and the psychology of individual differences 149

6 The puzzle of the self

183

7 Culture and personality

220

8 Gendered personality

258

9 Emotions and reasoning: a definition of the Human

294

10 Taking the measure of the Human: benefits and inherent

limitations of personality measures

329

11 Can personality change? The possibilities

of psychotherapeutics

371

12 The disordered personality: evolution of nosological

systems

407

13 Eight appendices: at the margins of personality psychology 451

References

499

Author index

544

Subject index

549

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