Pioneers of Personality Science: Autobiographical Perspectives

by Strack, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780826132055
• ISBN10: 0826132057
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics.

Table of Contents

Editors	viii
Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Irving B. Weiner
Preface	xiii
Stephen Strack
Bill N. Kinder
My Unexpected Life	1	(38)
Jack Block
Prolegomenon	1	(1)
Origins	2	(3)
Working Toward a PhD	5	(4)
Establishing a Career	9	(5)
The Institute of Human Development Longitudinal Study	14	(3)
Our Ongoing Longitudinal Study	17	(3)
Some Analytic Detours	20	(4)
Sundry Critiques of Psychological Research	24	(1)
Influences on My Psychological Values	24	(1)
The Emeritus Years	25	(1)
Coda	25	(2)
Some Personal Recognitions	27	(12)
Pathways	39	(16)
Arnold H. Buss
Graduate School	40	(2)
Internship	42	(1)
The University of Iowa	43	(1)
Indianapolis	43	(2)
The University of Pittsburgh	45	(2)
Rutgers University	47	(1)
The University of Texas	47	(3)
Family	50	(1)
Profession	51	(4)
Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account	55	(30)
James N. Butcher
Managing on Our Own	56	(2)
Learning to Be Resourceful	58	(2)
Celebrating Christmas Our Own Way	60	(2)
Coping with the School System	62	(1)
My Growing Interest in Aviation and the Army	63	(2)
Finding a Positive Role Model	65	(1)
Military Service and Search for Identity	66	(3)
Finding My Way in Civilian Life	69	(2)
Guilford: A College That Made a Difference	71	(1)
Graduate School at North Carolina	72	(1)
University of Minnesota	73	(6)
Computer-based Personality Assessment	79	(1)
Closing	79	(6)
A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment	85	(28)
Richard H. Dana
Level I: My Childhood/Education	86	(7)
Professional Beginnings (1953--1969)	93	(4)
My Years in Arkansas (1969--1988)	97	(2)
Retirement (1989--2003)	99	(3)
Level II: Traits/Concepts	102	(1)
Level III: Report on Myself	103	(2)
Peroration	105	(8)
A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past	113	(38)
Leonard Handler
The Beginning	114	(1)
My Childhood	115	(2)
Early Influences	117	(1)
My Early School Years	117	(1)
Early Work Experience	118	(1)
High School	119	(1)
College Years	119	(2)
Work and Graduate School	121	(1)
Michigan and Battle Creek VA Hospital	122	(3)
Courtship, Marriage, and Family	125	(1)
Graduate School and Enduring Friendships	126	(2)
Early Research Interests and Job Hunting	128	(1)
Tennessee	129	(1)
Finding a Focus and Developing a Career	130	(7)
London and the Tavistock Clinic	137	(1)
The Research Lab	137	(3)
SPA	140	(2)
The Future	142	(9)
A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality	151	(28)
Robert R. Holt
College	155	(1)
Graduate School: Harvard	156	(5)
Survey Research	161	(2)
Working at the VA and the Menninger Clinic	163	(5)
The New York Years	168	(4)
Retirement	172	(7)
Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits	179	(22)
Wayne H. Holtzman
Becoming a Psychologist	181	(1)
Becoming Established as a Research Scientist	182	(5)
A Broadening of International Interests	187	(3)
Administration, Public Service, and Family Life	190	(11)
Have PhD, Will Travel	201	(30)
Samuel Karson
My First Job in Psychology, or ``California, Here I Come''	204	(3)
My First University Appointment	207	(1)
The Sun Shines Best on Miami	208	(1)
Back to Uncle Sam (1962--1966)	209	(2)
Life at Eastern Michigan University (1966--1977)	211	(2)
Life as a Senior Foreign Service Officer (1977--1983)	213	(4)
The Great Adventure (1981--1983)	217	(1)
Bangkok	218	(2)
Melbourne, Florida (1983--1989)	220	(1)
Back In Washington, DC, for My Final Tour (1990--1995)	221	(1)
Coping with Old Age, Retirement, and Failing Health (1996--2003)	222	(1)
Some Observations on Assessment and the Profession	223	(1)
Summing Up	224	(7)
From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio	231	(28)
Paul M. Lerner
The DiMaggio and Gehrig Years	231	(4)
The Mantle Years	235	(5)
The CBS Years	240	(5)
The Steinbrenner Years	245	(7)
The 1998 Yankees	252	(2)
Conclusion	254	(5)
Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe	259	(18)
Jane Loevinger
College	260	(2)
Berkeley	262	(5)
Los Alamos	267	(1)
St. Louis	267	(4)
An Award from Educational Testing Service	271	(2)
Now	273	(4)
Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus	277	(30)
Joseph Masling
Hello, Columbus	279	(2)
Encountering Carl Rogers and Bruno Bettleheim	281	(2)
Fritz Redl and an ``Internship''	283	(3)
Fixed Role Therapy	286	(2)
The Relationship Between Psychotherapy and the Testing Situation	288	(1)
Studies of Orality	289	(2)
The Group Rorschach	291	(3)
A Year at the Anna Freud Clinic	294	(3)
Out of the Psychoanalytic Closet and into Subliminal Perception	297	(3)
Empiricism and Psychoanalysis	300	(7)
A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey	307	(28)
Theodore Millon
Family	308	(2)
Early School Years (1934--1945)	310	(3)
College and Graduate School Years	313	(3)
The Pennsylvania Years (1954--1970)	316	(4)
The Chicago Years (1969--1977)	320	(4)
The Miami and Boston Years (1977--Present)	324	(11)
Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment	335	(20)
Edwin S. Shneidman
My Undergraduate Days at UCLA, 1934--1938	338	(8)
My Assessment Years, 1946--1951	346	(3)
Now	349	(6)
Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life	355	(32)
Norman D. Sundberg
Early Changes and Choices: Growing up in Nebraska	355	(3)
Military Service and Germany	358	(2)
Becoming a Psychologist: Minnesota, Oregon, and Beyond	360	(4)
Spreading a Wide Net in Personality Assessment: Reviews, Fakeability, and Creativity	364	(3)
Crossing Cultures: India and Elsewhere	367	(2)
Boredom!	369	(1)
Seeing Red: Research on Rajneeshpuram	370	(4)
Person, Community, and Administration	374	(3)
The Importance of Personal and Family Life for a Psychologist	377	(2)
Chance and Choice, Change and Continuity	379	(8)
The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters	387	(26)
Marvin Zuckerman
Index	413