Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 442 p.)
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24 cm
Series Statement:
The Atherton Press behavioral science series
Content:
For aditional contents refer to public catalog
Content:
"This book of essays on personality has been given its title with a view to capturing something of the flavor of Henry A. Murray's thinking and influence on psychology. "The study of lives" is a phrase he has often used to describe his own work, and it suggests his central conviction that living beings must be studied as living wholes. Personality, he has repeatedly pointed out, is a dynamic process-a constantly changing configuration of thoughts, feelings, and actions occurring in a social environment and continuing throughout life. If small parts and short segments of human affairs have to be isolated for detailed scrutiny, they must still be understood as parts of a patterned organic system and as segments of a lifelong process. This has never meant for him that all research should take the form of collecting life histories, although his contributions along this line have been outstanding. It implies simply that isolating, fragmenting, and learning just a tiny bit about a lot of people tend to carry us away from what is most worth studying. The significant things about personality are part of the whole enterprise of living"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Content:
"The study of lives reveals for the first time the extent of Henry A. Murray's considerable influence on the study of personality. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he has either trained or strongly influenced some of the world's leading psychologists, eighteen of whom have written fascinating essays for this book. The range of topics presented here is as diverse and highly original as Murray's own ideas about personality. Everyone concerned with the study of personality will find this book an excellent sampling of the best work being done in the field. Some essays are based on intensive case studies, affirming the enduring value of that method. Sanford gives the histories of two college girls who scored alike on a standardized test of impulse expression but who did so for utterly different reasons. Keniston provides a searching analysis of an alienated undergraduate. The case histories of two twice-studied men are given by White to show the far-reaching developmental importance of the sense of interpersonal competence"--Book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2010; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2010 dcunns
Language:
English
Keywords:
Festschrift
