Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the grandfather 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 programsA藩
- 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 graduate-level students and clinicians who have not had undergraduate psychology. It should be required reading for
upper-level and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, and social work.
Student Study Site: www.sagepub.com/personalitytheoriesstudy
