The person - Dan P McAdams

This innovative text introduces students to current personality theory through its whole-person perspective and literary style. The writing is accessible and communicative, and approaches personality from four classic traditions of thought: intrapsychic mysteries, interaction episodes, interpretive structures, and interpersonal stories. Features: * Focuses on the whole person as the source of personality psychology. * Draws extensively on literature, biography, myth and folklore, and the social sciences to reveal a broad historical and interdisciplinary context. * Reviewed in CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY as "truly innovative", "daring", "refreshingly up-to-date" and having a "strong literary style" (FROM THE PREFACE). New to this edition: * Extensive updating and chapter restructuring make this edition flexible enough for a range of teaching methods. * INTERPERSONAL STORIES, the new final section of the text, organizes innovative new theories in personality psychology with the classic theories that produced them.