Pioneers of Personality Science: Autobiographical Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780826132055 | 0826132057
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Copyright: 12/1/2005

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The field of personology or personality is enjoying great growth, spurred by findings from behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, rethinking of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders definition of personality disorders, and advances in test construction and psychometrics.

Editors

viii

Contributors

Foreword

Irving B. Weiner

Preface

xiii

Stephen Strack

Bill N. Kinder

My Unexpected Life

(38)

Jack Block

Prolegomenon

(1)

Origins

(3)

Working Toward a PhD

(4)

Establishing a Career

(5)

The Institute of Human Development Longitudinal Study

(3)

Our Ongoing Longitudinal Study

(3)

Some Analytic Detours

(4)

Sundry Critiques of Psychological Research

(1)

Influences on My Psychological Values

(1)

The Emeritus Years

(1)

Coda

(2)

Some Personal Recognitions

(12)

Pathways

(16)

Arnold H. Buss

Graduate School

(2)

Internship

(1)

The University of Iowa

(1)

Indianapolis

(2)

The University of Pittsburgh

(2)

Rutgers University

(1)

The University of Texas

(3)

Family

(1)

Profession

(4)

Discontinuities, Side Steps, and Finding a Proper Place: An Autobiographical Account

(30)

James N. Butcher

Managing on Our Own

(2)

Learning to Be Resourceful

(2)

Celebrating Christmas Our Own Way

(2)

Coping with the School System

(1)

My Growing Interest in Aviation and the Army

(2)

Finding a Positive Role Model

(1)

Military Service and Search for Identity

(3)

Finding My Way in Civilian Life

(2)

Guilford: A College That Made a Difference

(1)

Graduate School at North Carolina

(1)

University of Minnesota

(6)

Computer-based Personality Assessment

(1)

Closing

(6)

A Report on Myself: The Science and/or Art of Assessment

(28)

Richard H. Dana

Level I: My Childhood/Education

(7)

Professional Beginnings (1953--1969)

(4)

My Years in Arkansas (1969--1988)

(2)

Retirement (1989--2003)

(3)

Level II: Traits/Concepts

102

(1)

Level III: Report on Myself

103

(2)

Peroration

105

(8)

A Psychologist Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections from the Past

113

(38)

Leonard Handler

The Beginning

114

(1)

My Childhood

115

(2)

Early Influences

117

(1)

My Early School Years

117

(1)

Early Work Experience

118

(1)

High School

119

(1)

College Years

119

(2)

Work and Graduate School

121

(1)

Michigan and Battle Creek VA Hospital

122

(3)

Courtship, Marriage, and Family

125

(1)

Graduate School and Enduring Friendships

126

(2)

Early Research Interests and Job Hunting

128

(1)

Tennessee

129

(1)

Finding a Focus and Developing a Career

130

(7)

London and the Tavistock Clinic

137

(1)

The Research Lab

137

(3)

SPA

140

(2)

The Future

142

(9)

A Lifelong Attempt to Understand and Assess Personality

151

(28)

Robert R. Holt

College

155

(1)

Graduate School: Harvard

156

(5)

Survey Research

161

(2)

Working at the VA and the Menninger Clinic

163

(5)

The New York Years

168

(4)

Retirement

172

(7)

Over Half a Century of Playing with Inkblots and Other Wondrous Pursuits

179

(22)

Wayne H. Holtzman

Becoming a Psychologist

181

(1)

Becoming Established as a Research Scientist

182

(5)

A Broadening of International Interests

187

(3)

Administration, Public Service, and Family Life

190

(11)

Have PhD, Will Travel

201

(30)

Samuel Karson

My First Job in Psychology, or ``California, Here I Come''

204

(3)

My First University Appointment

207

(1)

The Sun Shines Best on Miami

208

(1)

Back to Uncle Sam (1962--1966)

209

(2)

Life at Eastern Michigan University (1966--1977)

211

(2)

Life as a Senior Foreign Service Officer (1977--1983)

213

(4)

The Great Adventure (1981--1983)

217

(1)

Bangkok

218

(2)

Melbourne, Florida (1983--1989)

220

(1)

Back In Washington, DC, for My Final Tour (1990--1995)

221

(1)

Coping with Old Age, Retirement, and Failing Health (1996--2003)

222

(1)

Some Observations on Assessment and the Profession

223

(1)

Summing Up

224

(7)

From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio

231

(28)

Paul M. Lerner

The DiMaggio and Gehrig Years

231

(4)

The Mantle Years

235

(5)

The CBS Years

240

(5)

The Steinbrenner Years

245

(7)

The 1998 Yankees

252

(2)

Conclusion

254

(5)

Confessions of an Iconoclast: At Home on the Fringe

259

(18)

Jane Loevinger

College

260

(2)

Berkeley

262

(5)

Los Alamos

267

(1)

St. Louis

267

(4)

An Award from Educational Testing Service

271

(2)

Now

273

(4)

Speak, Memory, or Goodbye, Columbus

277

(30)

Joseph Masling

Hello, Columbus

279

(2)

Encountering Carl Rogers and Bruno Bettleheim

281

(2)

Fritz Redl and an ``Internship''

283

(3)

Fixed Role Therapy

286

(2)

The Relationship Between Psychotherapy and the Testing Situation

288

(1)

Studies of Orality

289

(2)

The Group Rorschach

291

(3)

A Year at the Anna Freud Clinic

294

(3)

Out of the Psychoanalytic Closet and into Subliminal Perception

297

(3)

Empiricism and Psychoanalysis

300

(7)

A Blessed and Charmed Personal Odyssey

307

(28)

Theodore Millon

Family

308

(2)

Early School Years (1934--1945)

310

(3)

College and Graduate School Years

313

(3)

The Pennsylvania Years (1954--1970)

316

(4)

The Chicago Years (1969--1977)

320

(4)

The Miami and Boston Years (1977--Present)

324

(11)

Ideas from My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment

335

(20)

Edwin S. Shneidman

My Undergraduate Days at UCLA, 1934--1938

338

(8)

My Assessment Years, 1946--1951

346

(3)

Now

349

(6)

Chance and Choice: Change and Continuity: That's Life

355

(32)

Norman D. Sundberg

Early Changes and Choices: Growing up in Nebraska

355

(3)

Military Service and Germany

358

(2)

Becoming a Psychologist: Minnesota, Oregon, and Beyond

360

(4)

Spreading a Wide Net in Personality Assessment: Reviews, Fakeability, and Creativity

364

(3)

Crossing Cultures: India and Elsewhere

367

(2)

Boredom!

369

(1)

Seeing Red: Research on Rajneeshpuram

370

(4)

Person, Community, and Administration

374

(3)

The Importance of Personal and Family Life for a Psychologist

377

(2)

Chance and Choice, Change and Continuity

379

(8)

The Shaping of Personality: Genes, Environments, and Chance Encounters

387

(26)

Marvin Zuckerman

Index

413

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