Case Workbook in Personality

by Robert W. White, Margaret M. Riggs, Doris C. Gilbert

A useful set of thorough and rich case studies for studying personality! Personality is, to an important extent, a product of experience. This workbook supplies readers with practical material for studying individual lives. It contains the life stories and experiences of four people coming from a variety of backgrounds. The material is given largely in the subjects' own words or in descriptions of behavior, with virtually no comments or interpretations by the examining psychologists. This leaves readers to work out their own understanding of each of the four people. How does each person come to be as he or she is? How do they come to act, to think, to feel, and to relate as they do? Probing questions on the subject's personality and development follow each case study. Readers are challenged to assemble evidence, to find patterns and relations, and to reach judgments about what was significant in each subject's life.

259 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982