PERSONALITY THEORIES ON THE INTERNET

Freud Jung Adler Horney Erikson Maslow Rogers Cognitive-
Behavioral

Positive Psychology

Cross-Cultural Psychology


 

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Sigmund Freud

*Take the Implicit Association Test (read the initial information, click "I wish to proceed," and then select any one of the test options) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/measureyourattitudes.html

After finishing, you might wish to read the FAQs https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/faqs.html

And if you have questions about the IAT, check out
http://faculty.washington.edu/agg/iat_validity.htm

For more information:
Tour through the Freud Museum in London (especially interesting is the Dream Exhibition)
http://www.freud.org.uk

Read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (available free on line) http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm


Carl Jung

*Take the Jung Typology Test (and print out your results) http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

*Print out a description of your 4-letter profile, courtesy of Keirsey's portraits http://www.keirsey.com/sixteenroles.html


For more information:
Information on psychological types (and the 4 dimensions described by the Jung Typology Test)
http://typelogic.com/faq.html

Psychological type and careers http://www.doi.gov/octc/typescar.html


Alfred Adler

Adlerian child-rearing principles http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/guid.htm


For more information:
Read remembrances of Adler by Sophia de Vries, a classical Adlerian psychotherapist who studied with Adler in Vienna and Holland http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/newslett.htm

Classical Adlerian Psychology, sponsored by the Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco: theory and readings, biographies, modern Adlerian training, case studies http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein

Judith Rich Harris's essay, "Why do people believe that birth order has important effects on personality?" http://xchar.home.att.net/tna/birth-order/believe.htm


Karen Horney
For more information:

The International Karen Horney Society (introduction to theory, bibliography, papers, humanistic psychoanalysis) http://plaza.ufl.edu/bjparis/horney/index.html

Overview of theory and theorist http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/horney.html


Erik Erikson
*Take a test to measure your stage of identity development
http://www.unca.edu/~himelein/perserik.htm

For more information:

Overview of theory and theorist http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/erikson.html


  Abraham Maslow

A guide to humanistic psychology
http://ahpweb.org/rowan_bibliography/chapter1.html
http://ahpweb.org/rowan_bibliography/chapter2.html

For more information:

Maslow resources (quotations, information, theory, commentary) http://www.maslow.org

Characteristics and biographies of self-actualized persons http://www.dailycelebrations.com/self.htm


Carl Rogers

*Characteristics of effective counseling (essay by Rogers) http://www.centerfortheperson.org/2.html


For more information:

Association for Humanistic Psychology - bibliographies, histories, listing of humanistic psychology programs http://www.ahpweb.org/index.html

Active listening (essay by Rogers) http://www.centerfortheperson.org/10.html

"Carl Rogers, More relevant today than Freud" - an interesting article from Psychotherapy Bulletin
http://www.allanturner.co.uk/papers/relevant.htm

 


Cognitive-
Behavioral
Personality
Concepts
For more information:

The B. F. Skinner Foundation  http://www.bfskinner.org/index.asp

Albert Bandura biography and theoretical concepts http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/bandurabio.html


Positive
Psychology

*Fredrickson, Barbara (2003), The value of positive emotions. American Scientist, 91, 330-335.

*Myers, David (2004). Happiness. (Excerpt).

*Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Hunter, Jeremy (2003). Happiness in everyday life: The uses of experience sampling. Journal of Happiness Studies, 4, 185-199.


Cross-
Cultural
Psychology
*The growth and importance of cross-cultural psychology
http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_82.asp

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