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Pioneers of Personality Science : Autobiographical Perspectives.
Title:
Pioneers of Personality Science : Autobiographical Perspectives.
Author:
Strack, Stephen.
ISBN:
9780826132048
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (448 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 My Unexpected Life -- Prolegomenon -- Origins -- Working Toward a PhD -- Establishing a Career -- The Institute of Human Development Longitudinal Study -- Our Ongoing Longitudinal Study -- Some Analytic Detours -- Sundry Critiques of Psychological Research -- Influences on My Psychological Values -- The Emeritus Years -- Coda -- Some Personal Recognitions -- 2 Pathways -- Graduate School -- Internship -- The University of Iowa -- Indianapolis -- The University of Pittsburgh -- Rutgers University -- The University of Texas -- Family -- Profession -- 3 Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account -- Managing on Our Own -- Learning to Be Resourceful -- Celebrating Christmas Our Own Way -- Coping with the School System -- My Growing Interest in Aviation and the Army -- Finding a Positive Role Model -- Military Service and Search for Identity -- Finding My Way in Civilian Life -- Guilford: A College That Made a Difference -- Graduate School at North Carolina -- University of Minnesota -- Computer-based Personality Assessment -- Closing -- 4 A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment -- Level I: My Childhood/Education -- Professional Beginnings (1953-1969) -- My Years in Arkansas (1969-1988) -- Retirement (1989-2003) -- Level II: Traits/Concepts -- Level III: Report on Myself -- Peroration -- 5 A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past -- The Beginning -- My Childhood -- Early Influences -- My Early School Years -- Early Work Experience -- High School -- College Years -- Work and Graduate School -- Michigan and Battle Creek VA Hospital -- Courtship, Marriage, and Family -- Graduate School and Enduring Friendships -- Early Research Interests and Job Hunting -- Tennessee -- Finding a Focus and Developing a Career.

London and the Tavistock Clinic -- The Research Lab -- SPA -- The Future -- 6 A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality -- College -- Graduate School: Harvard -- Survey Research -- Working at the VA and the Menninger Clinic -- The New York Years -- Retirement -- 7 Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits -- Becoming a Psychologist -- Becoming Established as a Research Scientist -- A Broadening of International Interests -- Administration, Public Service, and Family Life -- 8 Have PhD, Will Travel -- My First Job in Psychology, or "California, Here I Come" -- My First University Appointment -- The Sun Shines Best on Miami -- Back to Uncle Sam (1962-1966) -- Life at Eastern Michigan University (1966-1977) -- Life as a Senior Foreign Service Officer (1977-1983) -- The Great Adventure (1981-1983) -- Bangkok -- Melbourne, Florida (1983-1989) -- Back In Washington, DC, for My Final Tour (1990-1995) -- Coping with Old Age, Retirement, and Failing Health (1996-2003) -- Some Observations on Assessment and the Profession -- Summing Up -- 9 From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio -- The DiMaggio and Gehrig Years -- The Mantle Years -- The CBS Years -- The Steinbrenner Years -- The 1998 Yankees -- Conclusion -- 10 Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe -- College -- Berkeley -- Los Alamos -- St. Louis -- An Award from Educational Testing Service -- Now -- 11 Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus -- Hello, Columbus -- Encountering Carl Rogers and Bruno Bettleheim -- Fritz Redl and an "Internship" -- Fixed Role Therapy -- The Relationship Between Psychotherapy and the Testing Situation -- Studies of Orality -- The Group Rorschach -- A Year at the Anna Freud Clinic -- Out of the Psychoanalytic Closet and into Subliminal Perception -- Empiricism and Psychoanalysis.

12 A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey -- Family -- Early School Years (1934-1945) -- College and Graduate School Years -- The Pennsylvania Years (1954-1970) -- The Chicago Years (1969-1977) -- The Miami and Boston Years (1977-Present) -- 13 Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment -- My Undergraduate Days at UCLA, 1934-1938 -- My Assessment Years, 1946-1951 -- Now -- 14 Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life -- Early Changes and Choices: Growing up in Nebraska -- Military Service and Germany -- Becoming a Psychologist: Minnesota, Oregon, and Beyond -- Spreading a Wide Net in Personality Assessment: Reviews, Fakeability, and Creativity -- Crossing Cultures: India and Elsewhere -- Boredom! -- Seeing Red: Research on Rajneeshpuram -- Person, Community, and Administration -- The Importance of Personal and Family Life for a Psychologist -- Chance and Choice, Change and Continuity -- 15 The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics . This book traces the development of the field, written by those who were the pioneers of personality assessment. Sixteen autobiographical chapters written by the pioneers of personality assessment trace the development of the field. With accompanying photos and a concise bibliography from each contributor, this one-of-a-kind compilation of the past, present, and future of personology provide a unique insider's view of the discipline.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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