Personality and Social Psychology: Towards a Synthesis

A complete university textbook that walks through every major personality theory, from Freud and the neo-Freudians to humanistic, trait and cognitive approaches. It also shows how culture, religion and non-Western thought shape our view of personality.

Mark D. Kelland

A classic e-textbook with one clear chapter per thinker: Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson, Allport, Maslow, Rogers, Frankl and many more. Each chapter explains the theory in plain language, so it works well as a study guide.

C. George Boeree

Carl Jung's founding work on introversion, extraversion and the four psychological functions of thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition. It is the theory behind the Myers-Briggs types, in the classic English translation by H. Godwin Baynes.

Carl Gustav Jung

Alfred Adler's own introduction to individual psychology, written for general readers. He explains the inferiority feeling, the striving for superiority, birth order and style of life, the ideas that shaped later theories of personality.

Alfred Adler