Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality

SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATION TO THE STUDY OF PERSONALITY. What is Personality? Basic Constructs and Challenges of Contemporary Personality Theory. History of Personality from the Ancients to the Mid--Twentieth Century. SECTION TWO: MODERN PERSONALITY THEORY. Freud and His Followers: The Birth, Evolution, and Controversy of Twentieth--Century Psychoanalytic Psychology. SECTION THREE: PERSONALITY AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE. Component Models of Personality. SECTION FOUR: CONTEMPORARY MODELS OF PERSONALITY. Psychobiological Models of Personality. Contemporary Psychodynamic Models of Personality. Behavioral Models of Personality. Cognitive and Cognitive Behavioral Models of Personality. Interpersonal and Factorial Models of Personality. Relational Models of Personality. Integrative Models of Personality. SECTION FIVE: SPECIAL TOPICS. Applications, Research, and Future Directions. References. Author Index. Subject Index.