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by Robert F. Bornstein (Author)
The fascinating field of personality psychology not only helps us understand human behavior and mental life, but also provides an important lens to understanding ourselves in ways we never did before.
In his concise and timely textbook, Dr. Robert F. Bornstein provides a fresh and appealing approach to personality theory and research that embeds personality in the broader intellectual landscape of psychology today. Elements of Personality focuses on the four major theoretical approaches to understanding personality: psychodynamic, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral, trait/interpersonal, and humanistic/existential. The author provides detailed coverage of these four major viewpoints and ignores the extraneous "mini-theories" covered in other textbooks. The result is a textbook that offers complex material in an accessible, student-friendly way. Chapters build upon one another, showing how these four perspectives differ alongside various points of convergence.
Author Biography
Robert F. Bornstein, PhD, is a professor at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He is an established researcher with national and international visibility and he has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with about 60 book chapters, and written or edited more than a dozen books. Dr. Bornstein has received five federal grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Personality Assessment, and served as the former president of SPA.
