1st Edition

An Introduction to Personality Study

By Raymond B. Cattell Copyright 1950
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1950, the need for a small standard text on basic principles of personality structure and development had been very apparent to teachers of psychology for some time. There were many books illustrating specialized or applied aspects of the psychology of personality – such as abnormal psychology, educational psychology, child psychology, mental measurement, vocational... Read more

Preface.  1. Problems of Personality Study  2. Inherited, Constitutional Influences in Personality  3. Psychodynamics I: The Rise of Normal Personality Structures  4. Psychodynamics II: Further Analysis of Basic Structures and Functions  5. Psychodynamics III: The Progress of Adjustment or Maladjustment  6. The Abnormal Personality, Neurotic and Psychotic  7. The Description of Personality  8. The Measurement of Personality  9. Personality and the Body: Psychosomatics  10. Personality and the Cultural Pattern  11. The Life Course of Personality.  Subject Index.  Author Index.

Biography

Raymond B. Cattell