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The psychologic study of man

"This is a book about those complex phenomena of human psychology that are technically termed personality. The approach is Linnaean, identifying the species of behavior and their genus groupings without speculatively explaining behavior on the basis of conjectured causes. The book purports primarily to be an introductory text. It is for beginning students, whether in medical psychology, general psychology or applied social sciences, who are not afraid of intellectual exercise and who want to know more about human personality than is provided in the usual introductory textbooks of psychology. The student will not find simplified and popularized writing in this text. He is not treated as an inferior and written down to, as if from an elevated vantage point. Instead, he is requested to encounter hypotheses and concepts that experts in psychology may themselves find provocative and challenging. The layman who has become weary of the literature of neuroticism and maladjustment may well find that the attention given to the psychology of ordinary people in this book is to his liking. May it assist him, and the professional reader as well, to have increased understanding of the people he meets and lives among"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

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