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Understanding ourselves
Title
Understanding ourselves / [by] Helen Shacter, Northwestern University.
Publication
Bloomington, IL : McKnight & McKnight, 1945.
Physical Description
124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
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Summary
"Everyone is interested in an always-fascinating subject: personality. Everyone wants to reach certain goals. These goals differ for different people, but all people are concerned about how best to accomplish what they set out to do. Some are more successful than others in their efforts. Can the others develop, correct certain reactions, improve certain attitudes? In recent years much has been learned about personality: how it grows and develops, how it can be harmed and impaired, how it can be improved and enriched. Scientific research has been carefully conducted, and the results can be translated into everyday living to make it both happier and more effective. An awareness of how ways of thinking, of fearing, of hoping, of believing, came to be, is not only interesting but helpful in such an endeavor. For it is such reactions as these that contribute to and influence everything you plan and undertake"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
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Ovid PsycBooks.
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Also issued in print.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 10, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Getting along with yourself and others
Personalities vary in many ways
How people are fundamentally alike
Our desire for approval : a social need
Our desire for success : another social need
Our desire to be like others : a third social need
How we may fail to satisfy our social need
When we fail to satisfy our social needs
Conscious and not conscious
Solving problems versus evading problems
Evading problems by justifying our actions
Daydreaming as an evasion
Some other ways of evading difficulties
When illness is a way out
Fears-recognized and unrecognized
Evasions that are aggressive
The game of living.
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