This edited volume provides readers with a deeper knowledge of the growth of personality assessment in North America over the past 40 years through the autobiographies of its most notable figures.
Experts provide insights into their professional backgrounds, training experiences, their contributions and approaches to personality assessment, their perceptions of current trends, and their predictions about the future of the field. Each chapter explores topics of deep significance to the writer, fluidly intertwining theory and personal narrative.
Beginning clinicians, scholars, and students will gain a better understanding of the major empirical advances that were made during the last generation regarding key questions about the nature of people, the structure of personality traits, and the connections between personality and mental health.
Author(s): Christopher J. Hopwood
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 423
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Contributors
1 Understanding People Who Understand People
2 The Development of Therapeutic Assessment: From Shame and Isolation to Connection and Love
3 Personality: The Heart of the Matter
4 My Hobby: Listening for the MMPI’s Questions
5 Personality Assessment Land
6 The Sands of Identity Keep Shifting: Late-Life Career Developments
7 Reports of My Being an Extravert Are Greatly Exaggerated
8 Thoughts from a Contrarian Generalist: A Roundabout Journey to Where I Am Now
9 An Overdetermined Life in Psychoanalysis
10 Influences and Inspirations
11 It Takes a Village to Raise an MMPI Author
12 A Long Life: Twists and Turns
13 Thomas A. Widiger: Personality Assessment
14 Evolving Convictions through Dogged Pursuit of Answers and Large Dollops of Luck: My Piece in the World of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment
15 My Journey to Become a Clinical Psychologist
16 From Stable Traits to Spinning Vectors: A Measurement Driven Journey
17 A Brief History of “Me”
18 The Numbers and the Story
19 Circle Songs and Sands of Time
Index
