'Essential Personality' provides a clear, accessible and systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the understanding of human personality. This introductory book assumes no prior knowledge of this core area in psychology and is written for students studying personality for the first time, whether at A' level, first year undergraduates on psychology degree programmes or students on other courses (for example, nursing, social work or criminology).



Each chapter considers one or more of the major approaches to personality. For each approach, a brief...