1st Edition
Personality as an Affect-processing System Toward An Integrative Theory
By Jack Block
Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by
Psychology Press
256 Pages
by
Psychology Press
256 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering variety of construals and constructs. In this landmark book, Jack Block, who has spent more than 50 years studying the many facets of... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction and Orientation. Some Logical, Psycho-Logical, and Definitional Matters. Theoretical Orientation and Aspiration. A First Characterization of the Personality System. A Beginning Discussion of Drive, Percept, and Anxiety. Drives, Tension, and Control. Percept, Environment, and Perceptualizing. Closing the Ring. Clinical Implications. Connections to Theoretical Alternatives. Prescript: Developmental Aspects of Ego Control and Ego-Resiliency.
Biography
Block, Jack
"This book represents Block's attempt to integrate and expand the ideas that have stimulated him throughout his career....the book is ultimately very thought-provoking and filled with ideas that are resilient in their enduring relevance and broad applicability to the study of personality."
—Contemporary Psychology
