The Normal Personality: A New Way of Thinking About People

by Steven Reiss

• ISBN13: 9780521881067
• ISBN10: 0521881064
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

People should stop blaming their troubles on their parents or on their unconscious mind; they should stop thinking of themselves as victims of their upbringing. Instead, people should learn how their unfulfilled desires, unexpressed values, and conflicts of values get them into trouble. Values, not unconscious psychodynamics, hold the keys for understanding the personal troubles of ordinary people. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Overview	p. 1
My Wife Thinks Something Is Wrong with Me	p. 9
The Sixteen Basic Desires	p. 20
Intensity of Basic Motivation	p. 37
Normal Personality Types	p. 56
Overcoming Personal Troubles	p. 72
Six Reasons for Adolescent Underachievement	p. 85
Self-Hugging and Personal Blind Spots	p. 99
Relationships	p. 110
Reinterpretation of Myers-Briggs Personality Types	p. 126
The Sixteen Principles of Motivation	p. 143
Dictionary of Normal Personality Traits	p. 155
Reiss Motivation Profile Estimator	p. 171
The Sixteen Basic Desires at a Glance	p. 181
Notes	p. 183
References	p. 185
Index	p. 193
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