Character Styles

Inbunden bok. W W Norton & Co Ltd. 1994. xix+332 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nära nyskick. "This book presents a theoretical and research-based integration of personality. But it is not some academic, sterile dissection of the substance of human heroism and tragedy; rather, in describing life's most basic, existential issues, it shows how tragedies in human development create painful psychopathology that requires heroism to overcome.

The book shows how these basic life issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorder, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of the character styles. Further, it details both an external description of these personalities along the continuum of psychic structure and the internal experience or phenomenology that makes people's behavior understandable and worthy of empathy.

Johnson's dimensional model captures the complexity of human personality, while allowing for variability not seen in categorical systems such as DSM-IV. His descriptive names of the character styles—the hated child, the abandoned child, the owned child, the used child, the defeated child, the exploited child, and the disciplined child — not only link childhood experiences to later personality and psychopathology but also put flesh and bones on psychiatric diagnoses."