Exploring the Essentials of Healthy Personality
eBook - ePub

Exploring the Essentials of Healthy Personality

What Is Normal?

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Exploring the Essentials of Healthy Personality

What Is Normal?

About this book

What are the elements upon which a healthy personality is built? This fascinating book identifies the key components and shares vivid case studies that demonstrate what happens when those elements are missing. What is "normal" when it comes to human personality? And is it possible to achieve emotional health through intended effort, just like physical health? Clinical psychologist Camay Woodall, PhD, addresses these complex questions and many more in this work that cogently discusses the parameters of emotional health. This book covers historical concepts; examines personality at its formative stages and beyond; explains how "normal behavior" varies widely, yet emotional symptoms are definable; and pinpoints the common aspects of normality in human personality, such as the need for social connection, the struggle for realism, and the ability to come to terms with guilt. Covering topics that include anxiety; self-esteem; depression; food (and the abuses of it), sex, love, and intimacy; shame and guilt; and spirituality, this book identifies common sources of dysfunctional personality traits and stresses the importance of individual responsibility in each area. Each chapter is richly illustrated by actual case studies from the author's 30 years of experience. The book will be of interest and highly useful to undergraduate or graduate-level students of psychotherapy, individuals undergoing therapy, parents who are concerned about their own or their family's behavior, and general readers.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781440831942
eBook ISBN
9798216082576

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Realism and the Struggle with Self-Deception
  10. 2 Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence: The Bedrock of Healthy Personality
  11. 3 Spontaneity: Playing with the Whole Keyboard
  12. 4 Work and Play: The Antidote to Depression
  13. 5 Self-Soothing and Comforting: The Legacy of Parental Love
  14. 6 Love and Sex: The Eternal Knot
  15. 7 Food: “The Frustrating Goddess”
  16. 8 Shame and Guilt: What Is Really Mine?
  17. 9 Assertion Versus Aggression: The Fair Way to Stand Up for Yourself
  18. 10 Mutual Respect, Vulnerability, and the Price of Narcissism
  19. 11 Spirituality with Tolerance: Our Fitful Goal
  20. Conclusion
  21. Index
  22. About the Author