THEORIES OF
PERSONALITY READING LIST
Compiled by Daniel Kortenkamp, PhD, UW-Stevens Point,
WI (December, 2001)
Engler, Barbara.
(1999). Theories of
personality, 5th ed.
Hall, Calvin S., et. al.
(1998). Theories of
personality, 4th ed.
Ewen, Robert B. (1997). An introduction to theories of
personality, 5th ed..
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY.
Ellenberger, Henri
F. (1970). The discovery of the unconscious: The
history and evolution of dynamic psychiatry.
An outline
of psychoanalysis, 1940.
The complete introductory lectures on
psychoanalysis (1917, 1933), 1966.
The Freudian reader, 1989,
edited by Peter Gay.
Sigmund Freud revisited (biography), 1999, Richard Noland.
Freud: Conflict and culture,
1998, edited by M. Roth.
Freud: A life for our time (biography), 1988, Peter Gay.
Freud, biologist of the mind:
Beyond the psychoanalytic legend (biography), 1979, Frank
Sulloway.
Freud and his followers,
1975, P. Roazen.
Abstracts of the Standard Edition of
the Complete Psychological Works of
Sigmund Freud, 1973.
Life against death, 1959,
Norman O. Brown.
NEO-ANALYTIC THEORIES.
A psychology
of difference, 1996
[Otto Rank’s American lectures, 1924-1938]
Otto Rank: A rediscovered legacy, 1982, Esther Menaker.
Acts of will (biography),
1985, E. James Lieberman.
The denial of death, 1973,
Ernest Becker. [Pulitzer Prize, 1974;
my “best non-fiction” of the 1970s].
Memories,
dreams, reflections (autobiography), 1961.
Two essays on analytical psychology,
1972.
Man and his symbols, 1964,
edited by Carl Jung and others.
C.G. Jung: Psychological reflections,
1970, edited by Jolande Jacobi.
The portable Jung, 1971, edited by Joseph Campbell.
Conversations with Carl Jung (interview), 1964, Richard I. Evans.
Jungian psychology in perspective, 1981, Mary Ann Mattoon.
A life of Jung (biography), 2001, Ronald Hayman.
Carl Gustav Jung (biography), 1997, Frank McLynn.
The Aryan Christ: The secret life
of Carl Jung (biography), 1997, Richard Noll.
In search of Jung: Historical and
philosophical enquiries, 1992, John Clarke.
A guided tour of the collected works
of C. G. Jung, 1989, Robert H. Hopcke.
Abstracts of the collected works of C. G.
Jung, 1978.
Cross-currents of Jungian thought,
1991, Donald. Dyer.
The practice
and theory of individual psychology, 1927.
The science of living, 1929.
”Individual psychology” by Alfred Adler, in Psychologies of 1930,
1930, edited by Carl Murchison.
The individual psychology of Alfred Adler, 1956, edited by Heinz &
Rowena Ansbacher.
Superiority and social interest, 3rd
edition, 1973, edited by Heinz & Rowen Ansbacher.
The drive for self: Alfred Adler and the founding of individual
psychology (biography), 1994, E. Hoffman.
Alfred Adler, the forgotten
prophet: A vision for the 21st
century (biography),
1998, L. Grey.
In Freud’s shadow: Adler in
context, 1983, P. Stepansky.
Alfred Adler, the man and his work:
Triumph over the inferiority complex, 1963, H. Orgler.
On being
human,
1994.
The art of being, 1992.
The same society, 1955.
The art of loving, 1956.
The essential Fromm, 1995,
edited by Rainer Funk.
Dialogue with Erick Fromm (interview), 1966, Richard I. Evans.
The art of living (biography),
1989, Gerhard Knapp.
The legacy of Erich Fromm, 1991, D. Burston.
Final
lectures,
1987, edited by Douglas H. Ingram.
Neurosis and human growth, 1950.
Our inner conflicts, 1945.
New ways in psychoanalysis,
1939.
The adolescent diaries of Karen Horney, 1980.
Karen Horney: A psychoanalist’s search for
self-understanding (biography), 1994, Bernard Paris.
A mind of her own: The life of Karen Horney
(biography), 1987, Susan Quinn.
Karen Horney: Gentle rebel of psychoanalysis (biography), 1978),
Jack L. Rubins.
Childhood
and society, 2nd edition, 1963 (1950).
Identity: Youth and crisis,
1968.
The life cycle completed: A review,
1982.
Vital involvement in old age, 1986, with Joan Erikson and H.
Kivnick.
A way of looking at things: Selected papers from 1930 to 1980,
1987 edited by Stephen Schlein.
Gandhi's truth, 1969. [Pulitzer Prize, 1969; National Book Award,
1970]
Young man Luther, 1958.
Dialogue with Erik Erikson
(interview), 1969, Richard I. Evans.
Erikson on development in adulthood:
New insights from the unpublished papers, 2001, Carol Hoare
Identity’s architect: A biography
of Erik Erikson (biography), 1999, Lawrence Friedman.
Ideas and identities: The life
and work of Erik Erikson, 1998, edited by Robert S. Wallerstein and Leo
Goldberger.
Introducing Erik Erikson,
1987, F. L. Gross.
Erik Erikson (biography), 1976, P. Roazen.
Erik Erikson (biography), 1970, Robert Coles.
BEHAVIOR THEORIES.
Science and
behavior,
1953.
About behaviorism, 1974.
Beyond freedom & dignity,
1971.
Reflections on behaviorism and society,
1978.
Upon further reflection, 1987.
Cumulative record: A selection of papers, 3rd edition.,
1972.
Waldon two (a novel), 1948.
B. F. Skinner (interview), 1968, Richard I. Evans.
Particulars of my life
(autobiography, part 1), 1976.
The shaping of a behaviorist
(autobiography, part 2), 1979.
A matter of consequence
(autobiography, part 3), 1983.
B. F. Skinner: A reappraisal, 1993, M. Richelle.
The selection of behavior: The operant behaviorism of B.F. Skinner, 1988, edited by C.
Catania, & S. Harnad.
B.F. Skinner: Benign anarchist
(biography), 1996, Daniel Wiener.
B. F. Skinner: A life (biography), 1993, Daniel W.
Bjork.
The legacy of B.F. Skinner:
Concepts and perspectives, controversies and misunderstandings,
1992, R. Nye.
Personality
and psychotherapy (with John Dollard), 1950.
Neal E. Miller: Selected papers, 1971.
Self-efficacy: The exercise of control, 1997.
Albert Bandura: The man and his ideas (interview), 1989, Richard Evans.
TRAIT AND TEMPERAMENT THEORY.
“Autobiography”
in A history of psychology in autobiography, 1974, edited by G.
Lindzey.
”Travels in psychological hyperspace” (autobiography) in The
psychologists, Vol. 2, 1972, edited by T. Krawiec.
”Planning basic clinical research” in The history of clinical psychology
in autobiography, Vol. 2, 1993, edited by E. Walker.
”Advances in Cattellian personality theory” in Handbook of
personality: Theory and research,
1990, edited by Lawrence .
Personality and individual differences: A natural science approach, 1985 (with his son M. Eysenck).
“H.J. Eysenck” (interview), in The making of psychology: Discussions with creative contributors,
1976, edited by R. Evans.
Rebel with a cause: The
autobiography of Hans Eysenck, 1997.
BEHAVIORAL
GENETICS.
Behavioral genetics, 4th ed., 2001, Robert Plomin.
Behavioral genetics: the clash of culture and biology, 1999,
edited by Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein.
The nurture assumption, 1998, Judith Harris
Entwined lives: twins and what they tell us about human behavior,
1999, Nancy. Segal.
Twins and what they tell us about who we are, 1997, Lawrence Wright.
The limits of family influence:
Genes, experience, and behavior, 1994, D. Rowe.
Genes and environment in personality development, 1992, J.
Loehlin.
EVOLUTIONARY
PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIOBIOLOGY.
Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind, 1999, David Buss.
Evolutionary psychology: the ultimate origins of human behavior,
2001, Jack Palmer & Linda Palmer.
Evolutionary
psychology: a critical introduction, 2000, Christopher Badcock.
The origins of human nature:
Evolutionary developmental psychology, 2002, David Bjorklund
& Anthony Pellegrini.
Alas, poor Darwin: arguments against evolutionary psychology,
2000, edited by Hilary Rose & Steven Rose.
The triumph of sociobiology, 2001, John Alcock.
Animal behavior, 7th ed., 2001, John Alcock.
HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORIES.
DeCarvalho, Roy J.
(1991). The founders of humanistic psychology.
DeCarvalho, Roy J. (1991). The
growth hypothesis in psychology.
Wertz, F. (Ed.). (1994). The humanistic
movement: Recovering the person in
psychology.
Tageson, C. W. (1982). Humanistic
psychology.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology (1961-present).
Yalom, I. (1980). Existential
psychotherapy.
Bugental, J. (1981). The search for authenticity. An existential-analytic approach to
psychotherapy (enlarged edition).
Motivation
and personality, 3rd edition, 1987 (1970, 1954).
Toward a psychology of being, 2nd
edition, 1968.
The farther reaches of human nature,
1972.
Future visions: The unpublished papers
of Abraham Maslow, 1996, edited by Edward Hoffman.
Humanistic psychology: Interviews with Maslow, Murphy, and
Rogers, 1971, W. B. Frick.
The right to be human (biography), 1988, Edward Hoffman.
On becoming
a person: A therapist’s view of
psychotherapy, 1961.
Person to person: The problem of being human, 1967
(with Barry Stevens)
A way of being, 1980.
The Carl Rogers reader, 1989,
edited by Howard Kirchenbaum & V. C. Henderson.
Defying traditions: Conversations with Carl Rogers,
1987, David E. Russell.
Carl Rogers: The man and his ideas (interview), 1975, Richard I.
Evans.
”Autobiography” in A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 5,
1967, edited by E. Boring & G. Lindzey.
On becoming Carl Rogers
(biography), 1979, Howard Kirschenbaum.
Carl Rogers, 1992, Brian
Thorne.
Carl Rogers -- dialogues,
1989, edited by Howard Kirschenbaum.
The psychotherapy of Carl Rogers,
1996, edited by B. Farber, et. al.
The
discovery of being: Writings in existential psychology, 1983.
Love and will, 1969.
The cry for myth, 1991.
Freedom and destiny, 1981.
The meaning of anxiety, 2nd edition, 1977.
Existential psychology, 2nd edition
(Editor), 1969.
Man's search for himself,
1953.
Rollo May (biography), 1996,
R. Abzug.
The psychology of Rollo May, 1977, C. Reeves.
Man's search
for meaning, 4th edition, 1992.
Psychotherapy and existentialism,
1967.
The doctor and the soul: From psychotherapy to logotherapy, 3rd edition, 1986.
The will to meaning, expanded edition,
1988.
Viktor Frankl: Recollections
(autobiography), 1997.
Quest for meaning (biography),
in press, E. Hoffman.
Born for
love: Reflections on loving, 1992.
Living, loving, and learning,
1982.
Love, 1972.
COGNITIVE THERAPY THEORIES.
Rational emotive behavior therapy: A therapist’s guide, 1998 (with Catherine Maglaren).
Feeling better, getting better, staying better: Profound self-help therapy for your emotions, 2001.
Albert Ellis : passionate skeptic. (biography), 1988, Daniel N.
Wiener.
Scientific foundations of cognitive theory and
therapy for depression, 1999 (with D.A. Clark).
Feeling good: The new mood
therapy (rev. ed.), 1999, David Burns. [most-recommended by therapists to their clients]
TRANSPERSONAL THEORIES.
Walsh, R. N., & Vaughan, F. (Eds.). (1993). Paths beyond ego: The transpersonal vision.
Moss, D. (Ed.). (1998). Humanistic
and transpersonal psychology: A historical and biographical sourcebook.
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (1969 - present)
A brief
history of everything, 1996.
Eye to eye, 3rd ed.,
1996.
Grace and grit
(autobiography), 1991.
Hesse, Hermann. (1922/2000). Siddhartha.
Watts, Alan W. (1957). The way of zen,
Ross, Nancy Wilson. (1980). Buddhism:
A way of life and thought.
Rahula, Walpol. (1974). What the Buddha taught, 2nd edition.
Excellent authors.
The star
thrower,
1978.
The unexpected universe, 1969.
[my “best non-fiction” of the 1960s].