Publisher's Synopsis
Personality and the Behavioral Disorders, 2nd Edition, published in two volumes, and organized in six parts, is a revision of J. McVicker Hunt's classic source-book on the scientific foundations of clinical psychology and psychiatry.;It provides the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and clinical approaches to personality, covering everything from assessment techniques and motivational dynamics to the treatment and prevention of behavioral disorders. Because of the extensive changes in this field since the first edition was published in 1944, every chapter in the current edition is entirely new, written by one or more of today's leading psychologists and psychiatrists.