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Informationen zum Autor Robert W. White took his Ph.D. at Harvard and has taught there for twenty-five years, serving at various times as director of the Psychological Clinic and chairman of the Department of Social Relations. His present title is professor of clinical psychology. Klappentext Reveals the extent of Henry A Murray's considerable influence on the study of personality. The essays in this book are grouped under headings that represent some of his strongest interests: his conception of personality as a dynamic process; and his interest in devising procedures suitable for disclosing live feelings! fantasies! and adaptations. Zusammenfassung The Study of Lives reveals for the first time the extent of Henry A Inhaltsverzeichnis I. GROWTH AND CHANGE IN PERSONALITY 1: The Freeing and Acting out of Impulse in Late Adolescence: Evidence from Two Cases 2: Inburn: An American Ishmael 3: Sense of Interpersonal Competence: Two Case Studies and Some Reflections on Origins 4: The Harlequin Complex II. PROCEDURES AND VARIABLES FOR STUDYING PERSONALITY 5: The Method of Self-Confrontation 6: Somerset Maugham: A Thematic Analysis of Ten Short Stories 7: Psychodynamic and Sociocultural Factors Related to Intolerance of Ambiguity 8: The Coping Functions of the Ego Mechanisms 9 : Orientations toward Death : A Vital Aspect of the Study of Lives III. CREATIVE PROCESSES IN PERSONALITY 10: Diffusion, Integration, and Enduring Attention in the Creative Process 11: Creativity and Images of the Self 12: Explorations in Typology 13: The Reconstruction of the Individual and of the Collective Past IV. VALUES IN PERSONALITY 14: Personal Values in the Study of Lives 15: Albert Camus: Personality as Creative Struggle 16: Two Influences on Freud’s Scientific Thought: A Fragment of Intellectual Biography 17: Left and Right : A Basic Dimension of Ideology and Personality 18: The Golden Rule and the Cycle of Life BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY A. MURRAY
