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Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives | 
 enlarge | Authors: Albert Ellis, Mike Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi Abrams
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Category: Book
List Price: $109.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 209273
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 1412914221
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.2
EAN: 9781412914222
ASIN: 1412914221
Publication Date: August 14, 2008
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Product Description
Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered thefounder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.
Features and Benefits:
- Helps students develop the scientific thinking required to evaluate current and forthcoming theories
- Encourages the reader to re-examine preexisting theories
- Provides the missing link between previously disparate disciplines of abnormal and normal personality theories, a feature especially important to students in graduate clinical programs
- Prepares the upper-level student for the growing trend in clinical programs to link human behavior, personality, and psychopathology to the neurological substrates
- Encourages more focus on relevant theories than on the biographies of those who developed them
Intended Audience:
This enlightening text will provide insight into personality theory for students in courses on personality. It should be required reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, and social work.
Student Study Site: www.sagepub.com/personalitytheoriesstudy
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Personality Theories is a must read! September 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this text to be quite comprehensive, amazingly written based on extensive research. Topics from Freud, to studies of the Enneagram personality types are covered. This is an absolutely phenomenal addition to any psychology library and a wonderful tool in the ever expanding study of psychology. The authors truly embraced the unpredictable and erratic action of human behavior.
Ellis and his co-authors did an outstanding job August 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The people at Sage were kind enough to give me a review copy at APA and I was pleasantly surprised. This is by far the best I have read by Ellis and among the better texts that I have reviewed. Despite its sometimes cynical tone when discussing some classic figures in personality, it is very balanced and among the most comprehensive in the field. The book is exceptionally well researched and it succeeds in clarifying many complex topics that many other texts avoid or cover superficially. I will likely adopt this book for the Spring semester.
I read this textbook and actually enjoyed it. August 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It covers everything in detail and still is a pleasure to read. With two degrees in psychology, I learned a great deal from this readable and entertaining book. If you want to learn about personality, human development, clinical psych, this is the book.
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