Personality Theories

Albert Ellis - Albert Ellis Institute
Mike Abrams - New York University (NYU), USA
Lidia Abrams - Resolve Community Counseling Center, Inc.

Other Titles in:
Counselling Theory/Approaches (General) | Counselling and Psychotherapy (General) | Personality

October 2008 | 720 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Personality Theories, by Albert Ellis - the founding father of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - provides a comprehensive review of all major theories of personality including theories of personality pathology. Importantly, it critically reviews each of these theories in light of the competing theories as well as recent research.

Personality Theories is written for the advanced undergraduate or graduate student. This audience will strongly benefit from the clinical insights offered in the text. These insights are drawn from main author Albert Ellis' half-century of clinical experience as well as his intimate knowledge of most of the iconic figures who along with Ellis helped develop clinical psychology.

Introduction

Ch 1. The Study of Personality: Introduction

Ch 2. Historical Perspectives on Personality

Ch 3. Personality Research

Ch 4. Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious

Ch 5. Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice

Ch 6. Freud's Followers

Ch 7. Psychiatric and Medical Models

Ch 8. The Neo-Freudians

Ch 9. Personality and Traits

Ch 10. Behaviorist Views of Personality

Ch 11. Humanistic Views of Personality

Ch 12. Carl Rogers and Humanist Psychotherapy

Ch 13. Early Cognitive Views of Personality

Ch 14. Biology, Genetics, and the Evolution of Personality

Ch 15. Abnormal Personality and Personality Disorders

Ch 16. Albert Ellis and the Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory of Personality

Ch 17. Religious, New Age, and Traditional Approaches to Personality

Biographical Index

Glossary

References

Index

About the Authors

This is a brilliant pieace of work; very relevant to our integrative course.

Dr Oby Osuchukwu

Counselling Department, Havering College of Further and Higher Education

March 17, 2011

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A veery useful book to inform my sessions, but too complex for nursing students to read as just one of many on a reading list. this decision is all about the students abilities not about the book.

I found the book well laid out and very informative.

Mrs Anne Fenech

Health Sciences, Southampton University

January 28, 2011

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A very useful book for my students which I am adding to my reading list

Ms Denise Aspinall

School of Applied Social & Community Studies, Liverpool John Moores University

November 22, 2009

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