Neurodynamics of Personality - Softcover

Grigsby, Jim; Stevens, David W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572307471 ISBN 13: 9781572307476

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2001

Synopsis

How is each individual's unique personality formed? What is it about personality that can change, and why is change often so slow? Promising approaches to these perennial questions are suggested by the explosion of recent research in neuroscience and brain functioning. This timely volume presents a coherent, empirically based, and clinically useful framework for understanding personality. Jim Grigsby and David Stevens illuminate links between the organization of the brain and the unfolding of personality, and show how different aspects of personality are mediated by the brain's nonconscious learning and memory systems. Providing new insights for clinicians, students, and researchers, this book builds a critical bridge between existing psychological theories of personality and emerging knowledge in clinical neuroscience.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"An engaging, highly readable introduction to some of the fundamental issues involved in applying research and thinking in the cognitive neurosciences to the clinical understanding of personality." Drew Westen, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor and Director, Adolescent and Adult Personality Programs, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University

About the Author

Jim Grigsby, PhD, is a research scientist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he is Associate Professor of Medicine. David Stevens, PhD, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a practicing psychoanalyst.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572307471
• ISBN 13: 9781572307476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436