The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective.
Part 1 An Introduction
Part 2 The Dispositional Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 3 The Biological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 4 The Psychoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 5 The Neoanalytic Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 6 The Learning Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 7 The Phenomenological Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 8 The Cognitive Self-Regulation Perspective: Major Themes and Underlying Assumptions
Part 9 Personality in Perspective