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1 - Conceptual and Historical Perspectives

from Part I - Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

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Susan C. Cloninger
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Personality, including abnormal as well as normal personality, is arguably the most emblematic psychological area for outsiders, but a consensual definition of the field is elusive. In attempting to study the whole functioning of individuals, personality draws from other areas of psychology: biological, cognitive, social and developmental, to list a few. It has close ties to nonpsychological areas: history and politics, literature and the arts, health sciences and others. Weaving this diversity into a coherent whole remains a conceptual challenge.

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