This book offers a scientific investigation into the impostor phenomenon, a concept that has long been misunderstood in popular culture. Much of the conventional wisdom about the impostor phenomenon is driven by intuitive, common-sense based recommendations about how to cope with and conquer impostor feelings. Unfortunately, much of this ......
Despite its avowed shift away from behaviouristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency.
Healing Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder and Taking the Wheel of the Driven Personality
Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one. If you were born with a compulsive personality you may become rigid, controlling, and ......
Six essays illustrate the diversity of theoretical perspectives on the five-factor model of personality and the opportunities it provides for communicating and sharing ideas among some of the major schools in personality research. They include a history of the model, lexical and socioanalytic persp
This book explores the development of emotional competence in school age children and young adolescents. Saarni examines the formation of eight key emotional skills and explores why and what happens when development is delayed.
This volume fills a significant gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive and detailed review of what is known about the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of dependency.
Science and Practice in Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology
Brings together a diverse panel of experts who provide complex, nuanced perspectives on a variety of personality traits. Chapters explore both maladaptive and adaptive features of these traits, including how to address them in clinical settings. The final chapter ties the entire volume together with a thorough review of common themes, clinical ......
An important work from a leading scholar, this book explores self-development from early childhood to adulthood. Susan Harter traces the normative stages that define the emergence of many self-processes, including self-esteem. She also addresses individual differences and societal influences on self-development. Presenting pioneering empirical ......
