The Normal Personality

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-88106-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

In The Normal Personality, the author argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorders. Reiss shows how normal motives - not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences - underlie many personality and relationship problems, such as divorce, infidelity, combativeness, workaholism, loneliness, authoritarianism, weak leadership styles, perfectionism, underachievement, arrogance, extravagance, stuffed shirt-ism, disloyalty, disorganization, and overanxiety. Calling for greater understanding and tolerance of all kinds of personalities, Reiss applies his theory of motivation and leadership, human development, relationships, and counseling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reiss, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. My wife thinks something is wrong with me; 2. The 16 basic desires; 3. Intensity of motivation; 4. Normal personality types; 5. Overcoming personal troubles; 6. Six reasons for adolescent underachievement; 7. Self-hugging and personal 'blind' spots; 8. Relationship troubles; 9. Re-interpretation of Myers Briggs personality types; 10. The 16 principles of motivation; Appendix A: Dictionary of normal personality traits; Appendix B: Estimating your Reiss Motivation Profile; Appendix C: The 16 basic desires at a glance.

Über Autor(innen)

Reiss, Steven
Steven Reiss was educated at Dartmouth College as an undergraduate, at Yale University for his doctorate, and at Harvard University for his clinical internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published scientific and clinical studies on the co-occurence of intellectual disabilities and mental illness. This work has been recognized with five national awards, two for scientific research, two for national impact on clinical services, and one for national leadership, and received two certificates of recognition for volunteer work. In 1985, Professor Reiss and then graduate student Richard J. McNally published the construct of anxiety sensitivity as an early risk factor for Panic Disorder. Anxiety sensitivity has been translated into more than 35 languages and is used to help diagnose many thousands of patients throughout the world. Professor Reiss's theory of motivation is an expansion of some of the ideas underlying anxiety sensitivity to motives other than anxiety.