Personality Theories

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

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

An academic study of the person-situation debate: how much of our behavior comes from stable traits and how much from the situation we are in. It reviews the evidence and proposes a way to bring personality and social psychology together.

Barbara Krahé