In this fifth edition the Author continues to offer a stimulating book that helps readers think through the most promising views of personality. Offering breadth and balance, Maddi uncovers the similarities and differences among many existing approaches to personality. Conducting rational and empirical analyses, Maddi delineates the important issues separating the various approaches and seeking to identify the most promising bases for conceptualizing personality. The fifth edition presents a new chapter two on methods in personality study and chapter fifteen on psychotherapy and assessment. This new material brings the concreteness of procedure and application to the revision. The more informal writing style of the new edition makes the material more accessible to studen