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Personality Assessment in America A Retrospective on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Society for Personality Assessment
200 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
200 Pages
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Routledge
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Whereas most psychology books discuss current or future trends, this one focuses on the past. It consists of a collection of important and historically significant writings by a select group of men and women who, over the past 50 years, were honored by their colleagues for their distinguished contributions to the field of personality assessment. Published from 1939 through 1989, most of the papers... Read more
Contents: Preface. E.I. Megargee, C.D. Spielberger, Personality Assessment in America: An Introduction. Key Contributions from the Journals of the Society for Personality Assessment: 1938-1988. M. Krugman, Out of the Inkwell: The Rorschach Method. M. Rickers-Ovsiankina, Some Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Rorschach Method. S.B. Kutash, The Impact of Projective Techniques on Basic Psychological Science. S.J. Beck, Personality Research and Theories of Personality Structure. B. Klopfer, Psychological Variables in Human Cancer. L. Bellak, Henry A. Murray: An Appreciation. R.R. Holt, Formal Aspects of the TAT -- A Neglected Resource. W.E. Henry, E. Cumming, Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age. E.S. Shneidman, Projections on a Triptych; Or, a Hagiology for Our Time. W.G. Klopfer, The Metamorphosis of Projective Techniques. M. Hertz, Projective Techniques in Crisis. P.E. Meehl, A Funny Thing Happened to Us on the Way to the Latent Entities. J.E. Exner, But It's Only an Inkblot. I.B. Weiner, The Future of Psychodiagnosis Revisted. R.H. Dana, Megatrends in Personality Assessment: Toward a Human Science Professional Psychology. S.J. Blatt, The Rorschach: A Test of Perception or an Evaluation of Representation. Epilogue. E.I. Megargee, C.D. Spielberger, Reflections on Fifty Years of Personality Assessment and Future Directions for the Field.
Biography
Edwin I. Megargee, Charles D. Speilberger
"...commemorates the 50th anniversary of the SPA...in the nicest way possible....the editors, both of whom have long been respected international leaders in assessment, provide excellent introductory and closing contributions that trace the development of the Society and offer suggestions for further advances in assessment."
—Contemporary Psychology
