Pioneers of Personality Science: Autobiographical Perspectives,9780826132055

Pioneers of Personality Science: Autobiographical Perspectives

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780826132055
ISBN10: 0826132057
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-01
Publisher(s): SPRINGER PUB CO INC
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Summary

The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics.

Table of Contents

Editors viii
Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Irving B. Weiner
Preface xiii
Stephen Strack
Bill N. Kinder
My Unexpected Life
1(38)
Jack Block
Prolegomenon
1(1)
Origins
2(3)
Working Toward a PhD
5(4)
Establishing a Career
9(5)
The Institute of Human Development Longitudinal Study
14(3)
Our Ongoing Longitudinal Study
17(3)
Some Analytic Detours
20(4)
Sundry Critiques of Psychological Research
24(1)
Influences on My Psychological Values
24(1)
The Emeritus Years
25(1)
Coda
25(2)
Some Personal Recognitions
27(12)
Pathways
39(16)
Arnold H. Buss
Graduate School
40(2)
Internship
42(1)
The University of Iowa
43(1)
Indianapolis
43(2)
The University of Pittsburgh
45(2)
Rutgers University
47(1)
The University of Texas
47(3)
Family
50(1)
Profession
51(4)
Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account
55(30)
James N. Butcher
Managing on Our Own
56(2)
Learning to Be Resourceful
58(2)
Celebrating Christmas Our Own Way
60(2)
Coping with the School System
62(1)
My Growing Interest in Aviation and the Army
63(2)
Finding a Positive Role Model
65(1)
Military Service and Search for Identity
66(3)
Finding My Way in Civilian Life
69(2)
Guilford: A College That Made a Difference
71(1)
Graduate School at North Carolina
72(1)
University of Minnesota
73(6)
Computer-based Personality Assessment
79(1)
Closing
79(6)
A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment
85(28)
Richard H. Dana
Level I: My Childhood/Education
86(7)
Professional Beginnings (1953--1969)
93(4)
My Years in Arkansas (1969--1988)
97(2)
Retirement (1989--2003)
99(3)
Level II: Traits/Concepts
102(1)
Level III: Report on Myself
103(2)
Peroration
105(8)
A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past
113(38)
Leonard Handler
The Beginning
114(1)
My Childhood
115(2)
Early Influences
117(1)
My Early School Years
117(1)
Early Work Experience
118(1)
High School
119(1)
College Years
119(2)
Work and Graduate School
121(1)
Michigan and Battle Creek VA Hospital
122(3)
Courtship, Marriage, and Family
125(1)
Graduate School and Enduring Friendships
126(2)
Early Research Interests and Job Hunting
128(1)
Tennessee
129(1)
Finding a Focus and Developing a Career
130(7)
London and the Tavistock Clinic
137(1)
The Research Lab
137(3)
SPA
140(2)
The Future
142(9)
A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality
151(28)
Robert R. Holt
College
155(1)
Graduate School: Harvard
156(5)
Survey Research
161(2)
Working at the VA and the Menninger Clinic
163(5)
The New York Years
168(4)
Retirement
172(7)
Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits
179(22)
Wayne H. Holtzman
Becoming a Psychologist
181(1)
Becoming Established as a Research Scientist
182(5)
A Broadening of International Interests
187(3)
Administration, Public Service, and Family Life
190(11)
Have PhD, Will Travel
201(30)
Samuel Karson
My First Job in Psychology, or ``California, Here I Come''
204(3)
My First University Appointment
207(1)
The Sun Shines Best on Miami
208(1)
Back to Uncle Sam (1962--1966)
209(2)
Life at Eastern Michigan University (1966--1977)
211(2)
Life as a Senior Foreign Service Officer (1977--1983)
213(4)
The Great Adventure (1981--1983)
217(1)
Bangkok
218(2)
Melbourne, Florida (1983--1989)
220(1)
Back In Washington, DC, for My Final Tour (1990--1995)
221(1)
Coping with Old Age, Retirement, and Failing Health (1996--2003)
222(1)
Some Observations on Assessment and the Profession
223(1)
Summing Up
224(7)
From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio
231(28)
Paul M. Lerner
The DiMaggio and Gehrig Years
231(4)
The Mantle Years
235(5)
The CBS Years
240(5)
The Steinbrenner Years
245(7)
The 1998 Yankees
252(2)
Conclusion
254(5)
Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe
259(18)
Jane Loevinger
College
260(2)
Berkeley
262(5)
Los Alamos
267(1)
St. Louis
267(4)
An Award from Educational Testing Service
271(2)
Now
273(4)
Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus
277(30)
Joseph Masling
Hello, Columbus
279(2)
Encountering Carl Rogers and Bruno Bettleheim
281(2)
Fritz Redl and an ``Internship''
283(3)
Fixed Role Therapy
286(2)
The Relationship Between Psychotherapy and the Testing Situation
288(1)
Studies of Orality
289(2)
The Group Rorschach
291(3)
A Year at the Anna Freud Clinic
294(3)
Out of the Psychoanalytic Closet and into Subliminal Perception
297(3)
Empiricism and Psychoanalysis
300(7)
A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey
307(28)
Theodore Millon
Family
308(2)
Early School Years (1934--1945)
310(3)
College and Graduate School Years
313(3)
The Pennsylvania Years (1954--1970)
316(4)
The Chicago Years (1969--1977)
320(4)
The Miami and Boston Years (1977--Present)
324(11)
Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment
335(20)
Edwin S. Shneidman
My Undergraduate Days at UCLA, 1934--1938
338(8)
My Assessment Years, 1946--1951
346(3)
Now
349(6)
Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life
355(32)
Norman D. Sundberg
Early Changes and Choices: Growing up in Nebraska
355(3)
Military Service and Germany
358(2)
Becoming a Psychologist: Minnesota, Oregon, and Beyond
360(4)
Spreading a Wide Net in Personality Assessment: Reviews, Fakeability, and Creativity
364(3)
Crossing Cultures: India and Elsewhere
367(2)
Boredom!
369(1)
Seeing Red: Research on Rajneeshpuram
370(4)
Person, Community, and Administration
374(3)
The Importance of Personal and Family Life for a Psychologist
377(2)
Chance and Choice, Change and Continuity
379(8)
The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters
387(26)
Marvin Zuckerman
Index 413

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