Self-consistency : a theory of personality

Self-consistency : a theory of personality / by Prescott Lecky

Creator: Lecky, Prescott, 1892-1941

Call Number: 137 LEC

Created/Published: New York : Island Press, [1951]

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SELF-CONSISTENCY A THEORY OF PERSONALITY	3
CONTENTS	5
FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION	7
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION	9
POSITIVE VALUES OF MR. LECKY’S WORK	13
CHAPTER I A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH	21
CHAPTER 2 THE INFLUENCE OF BEHAVIORISM UPON MODERN PSYCHOLOGY	33
CHAPTER 3 THE VALIDITY OF PERSONALITY INVENTORIES	43
CHAPTER 4 THE INDIVIDUALITY RECORD	57
CHAPTER V SELF-CONSISTENCY VS. THE DOCTRINE OF SPECIFICITY	87
CHAPTER VI THE PERSONALITY AS A SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT	111
CHAPTER VII THE STRUCTURE OF THE PERSONALITY	125
CHAPTER VIII THE PERSONALITY¹	161
CHAPTER IX SELF-CONSISTENCY AS A TECHNIQUE	179
TOWARD A NON-MECHANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY	201
CHAPTER X CLINICAL APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY STUDY	205
CHAPTER XI A NUCLEAR THEORY OF MIND	231
CHAPTER XII A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE SELF-CONSISTENCY THEORY	249
APPENDIX I PREVENTING FAILURE BY REMOVING RESISTANCE	257
APPENDIX II PERSONAL COUNSELING	269

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