Personality and personal growth 6th edition

Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Personality and Personal Growth. I'm reading this for my Personality Psychology class. It explains the various theories very concisely. Having had to deal with mega textbooks, I can wholeheartedly appreciate this. Good stuff man! Between taking 2 introductory psych courses, psych 30 in high school, and reading The Psychology Book , almost the first half of the textbook was nothing new.

I was actually surprised that this class didn't go into any further detail than the introductory course, being a higher level course with a more focused subject matter. Skinner, Maslow, Bandura, and a few others were new, though. My teacher uses this textbook primarily for two reasons. The first is that the last 3 chapters and a small portion of chapter 12 are "transpersonal" psychology, or non-Western.

It focuses on Yoga, Buddhism, and Sufi. It gives a glimpse into non-American and non-European views of the world. She also uses them because throughout each chapter are little exercises you can do that are supposed to help you look deeper into yourself while also helping you understand the content that you just read. You have to choose 3 to do, one from each third of the book.

The content itself is easy enough to understand, though having to read a whole chapter at once was pretty dry at times. I was just disappointed with the lack of new content or more in depth content with psychologists we know very well, particularly Freud and Jung. This is much better that the earlier edition. I enjoyed it a lot. Zen and the Buddhist Tradition. Sufism and the Islamic Tradition. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students.

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This title is out of print. Personality and Personal Growth, 6th Edition. Robert D. Availability This title is out of print. Chapter-by-Chapter Change. Discussion on studies of yoga therapy in physical and mental healing, and the effects of both hatha yoga and kundalini yoga as complementary treatments to psychotherapy.

Discussion on the rapidly increasing literature on the effects of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-based Cognitive therapy. New material on research in Sufism, including research on drumming and chanting practices related to the Sufi practice of dhikrulla.

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