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This classic book is comprised of over six dozen articles, drawings, and photo-essays selected to apply psychology to your development as a person. These selections explore six themes: identity, human communication, growth dynamics, feelings and emotions, human relationship, and quality of life. Readings have immediate relevance and application to everyday life and provoke thought and discussion. More than half the readings to this edition are new.
| All chapters begin with Introduction, Overview, and conclude with Applied Activities | |
| Identity | |
| The Search for Identity: A Modern Problem | |
| The Basic Relationship | |
| Harrison Bergeron | |
| Rubricizing | |
| Suddenly I'm the Adult? | |
| I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love | |
| The Myth of the Miserable Working Woman | |
| On Being a Man | |
| Excerpt from Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together | |
| If I Were a Car, I'd Be A Lemon | |
| Think "People First", Ohio Public Images/Public Images Network | |
| Don't Look Too Closely | |
| Occupational Exploration | |
| To a Body, With Love | |
| Human Communication | |
| Interpersonal Communication | |
| John Steinbeck on Listening | |
| To Hear and To Be Heard | |
| A Teacher Hears, A Middle School Teacher | |
| Self-Disclosure | |
| You Just Don't Understand | |
| Assertive, Nonassertive, and Aggressive Behavior | |
| King of the Purple Tree | |
| Growth Dynamics | |
| Uniqueness | |
| The Meaning of Personal Growth | |
| Responsibility | |
| Herbie | |
| Just a Regular Kid | |
| A Fifth Grade Teacher and Graduate Student | |
| New Passages | |
| Lesson of the Cliff | |
| Small Terrors, Secret Heroics | |
| Using Our Flaws and Faults | |
| No One's Perfect | |
| Getting Unstuck: Joyfully Recreating Your Life | |
| The Pace of Growth | |
| An Undergraduate Student | |
| Emotions & Feelings | |
| Feeling Good | |
| Emotional Intelligence | |
| The Positive Face of Anxiety | |
| Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion | |
| The Causes of Loneliness | |
| My Tyrant | |
| You Never Know | |
| Little Joys | |
| Jealousy and Envy: The Demons Within Us | |
| Sarcasm and Apathy, A Graduate Student and Teacher | |
| On the Death of a Father | |
| "Loss and Mourning," Excerpt from Necessary Losses | |
| The Madness Personality Inventory | |
| Human Relationships | |
| Ending the Battle Between the Sexes | |
| The Dance of Intimacy | |
| Sometimes It Rains | |
| The Monster | |
| What Friends Are For | |
| "Kinds of Friends," Excerpt from Necessary Losses | |
| Lamenting the Fading of Friendships | |
| The Secret World of Siblings | |
| The Human Potential of Whip Gim | |
| Parent | |
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