Beneath the Mask: An Introduction to Theories of Personality

Beneath the Mask presents classical theories of human nature while emphasizing the theorist's progression of ideas. The eighth edition continues to discuss the ideas of personality theorists developmentally. This account of personality theory incorporates the personal origins of ideas to highlight the links between the psychology of each theorist and that theorist's own psychology of persons. It also explores how the personal histories, conflicts, and intentions of the theorist entered that thinker's portrait of people.

1. Basic Issues: How to Approach the Study of Personality Theories.

2. Sigmund Freud / Psychoanalysis: The Clinical Evidence.

3. Sigmund Freud / Psychoanalysis: The Dynamic Model of the Mind.

4. Alfred Adler / Individual Psychology.

5. Carl Gustav Jung / Analytical Psychology.

6. Anna Freud / Widening the Scope of Psychoanalysis: Ego Psychology.

7. Melanie Klein & D.W. Winnicott / The Psychoanalytic Heritage: Object Relations Theory.

8. Erik Homburger Erikson / Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology: The Centrality of Identity.

9. Harry Stack Sullivan / Interpersonal Theory.

10. Karen Horney / Psychoanalytic Social Psychology.

11. Gordon W. Allport / Humanistic Trait and Self Theory.

12. Rollo May / Existential Phenomenology.

13. Abraham Maslow & Carl Rogers / Humanistic Self-Actualization Theory.

14. George A. Kelly / Personal Construct Theory.

15. Albert Bandura / Social Cognitive Theory.

16. Hans Eysenck / Biologically Based Typology.

17. Edward O. Wilson / Evolutionary Psychology.