The psychologist who pursues an interest in personality is
constantly faced by a dilemma. He seeks to investigate what is to
him the most intriguing and interesting subject--the multifaceted
operations of man in his natural environment. The predicament lies
in the discrepancy between the complexity and richness of man's
subjective experience, and the pallid analog of these experiences
the psychologist is able to study effectively with the research
procedures available to him. In Concepts of Personality Joseph M.
Wepman and Ralph W. Heine offer a comprehensive survey of classical
and contemporary personality theory, including a wide array of
examples of these two trends.
If the psychologist holds to the premises of strict objectivity
through controlled observations, he finds himself driven to the
periphery of the very problem he seeks to understand. This is a
place where the reliability of measurement and the validity and
predictability of his instruments can often be specified, but only
at the cost of abandoning the goal of useful generality or of
application to the individual in his ordinary life circumstances.
Concepts of Personality, unlike most books on the subject, is not
limited to broad, general theories. It includes chapters on basic
processes--learning, perception, genetics, and drive theory; on the
major analytical approaches of psychology and psychiatry; on
anthropological and sociological contributions; and on the problems
of measurement and assessment. Each chapter is by an authority on
the point of view expressed.
The editors' introduction, itself a major essay on the complex
and divergent patterns and themes of contemporary views of
personality, carefully leads the reader through the information at
hand. The book as a whole constitutes an encyclopedic summary of
the state of the science.
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