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The Normal Personality

Hardcover • 2008 • English

The Normal Personality

By Steven Reiss

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In The Normal Personality, Steven Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorders. Reiss shows how normal motives - not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences - underlie many personality and relationship problems, such as divorce, infidelity, combativeness, workaholism, lonel...Show more

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9780521881067

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Normal Personality

Format

Hardcover

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