Shakespeare for the Intelligence Agent Toward Understanding Real Personalities

Provocative and engaging, this text invites you into a unique thought experiment, using portraits from some of Shakespeare’s most stirring works to illustrate how our psychological understanding of human nature and personality can be significantly enriched through literature.

About the author

Yair Neuman, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is the author of Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology, and his work has been published extensively in leading journals for various disciplines including psychology, psychoanalysis, and information sciences.

Summary

Provocative and engaging, this text invites you into a unique thought experiment, using portraits from some of Shakespeare's most stirring works to illustrate how our psychological understanding of human nature and personality can be significantly enriched through literature.

Product details

• Authors: Yair Neuman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.11.2016
• Subject: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781442256774
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5677-4
• Pages: 186
• Subjects: English, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Psychotherapy, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean