Author: Boeree, C. George

Price: $18.25

Category:Psychology & Counseling
Publication Date:2017-11-07T00:00:01Z
Pages:296
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1979563101
ISBN:13:9781979563109
Personality psychology is the study of the person. As such, it is arguably the broadest, most "philosophical", branch of psychology. It involves an examination of the effects of genetics, the physical environment, culture, upbringing, trauma, pathology and more. In as much as this is clearly a huge undertaking, it is as much a matter of competing theories as it is of empirical research. For this reason, it remains a tradition in the field to look at various attempts over the last 100-plus years to tackle the issue: "What is it to be a person?" This book attempts to provide an open-minded review of the most important of these theories.