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1. The Study of Personality: Introduction

Video Clip: Ellis discusses genetics and personality.
Ellis Interactive influences

The Essence of REBT. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
Essence of REBT

Animated Interview with Albert Ellis from Psychology Today.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20010101-000035&print=1

The American Psychological Association. Includes a link to resources for students
http://www.apa.org/

The American Counseling Association.
http://www.counseling.org/

The British Psychological Society
http://www.bps.org.uk/index.cfm

2. Historical Perspectives on Personality

Psychology: Portal to psychology, schools, theorists, etc from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

History of Psychology Homepage at Oklahoma State University.
http://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/history/index.html

Animated Interview with Albert Ellis from Psychology Today.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20010101-000035&print=1

The American Psychological Association. Includes a link to resources for students
http://www.apa.org/

The American Counseling Association.
http://www.counseling.org/

Classics in the History of Psychology. Books online at York University.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/topic.htm#history

Suggested Reading:
Hunt, M. (1993). The Story of Psychology. First Anchor Books.

3. Personality Research

Video: The Milgram Study from Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=stanley+milgram&hl=en&emb=0#

Short interactive quiz on research methods from About.com.
http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl_researchmethods_quiz.htm

Human Intelligence Measures and Biographical Index of Researchers at Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/index.shtml

The American Psychological Association. Includes a link to resources for students
http://www.apa.org/

4. Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious

Ellis emphatically discusses other theorists, particularly Freud.
Ellis other theorists

The basic writings of Sigmund Freud. A.A, Brill, Sigmund Freud. From questia.com
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8603908

Suggested Reading:

Freud, S (trans. Strachey). (1937) Constructions in Analysis. New York: Basic Books.

Masson, J.M., (1988) Against Therapy. Common Courage Press.

5. Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice

A Geneneral Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud from Questia.com
http://www.questia.com/read/102189232?title=A%20General%20Introduction%20to%20Psychoanalysis

Is Psychoanalysis Harmful? Albert Ellis. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
Is Psychoanalysis Harmful

A Geneneral Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud from Questia.com
http://www.questia.com/read/102189232?title=A%20General%20Introduction%20to%20Psychoanalysis

Interview with Albert Ellis. The Village Voice.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-08-16/people/the-interpretation-of-reams/

Suggested Reading:

Abrams, M., (1997). The paradox of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, (15) 2 133-140.

6. Freud’s Followers

Video: Jung on Death. From Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=jung+death&hl=en&emb=0#

Link to Alfred Adler Institutes. 1929 video of Adler speaking on style of life.
http://home.att.net/~adlerian/video5.htm

Suggested Reading:

Ansbacher & Ansbacher. (1967). The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler: A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings. Harper & Row.

Adler, A. (1927). The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology. New York: Harcourt.

Ellis, A. (1957c). Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology. Journal of Individual Psychology, 13, 38–44.

7. Psychiatric and Medical Models

National Institute of Health Podcast. Research Ethics. Inability to Give Consent
http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=11140&hl=en&emb=0#

Experimental brain implant for depression. Deep Brain Stimulation from Science Daily.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080626144441.htm

Video: Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders from Science Daily.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0504-learning_to_walk_again.htm

Video: Thomas Szasz on child psychiatry at YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQegsqYhuZE

American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psych.org/

8. The Neo-Freudians

Karen Horney at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Horney

Harry Stack Sullivan at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stack_Sullivan

The International Association for Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology. Includes 30 minute audio interview with Kohut.
http://www.psychologyoftheself.com/

Short Quiz on Erikson. From About.com
http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl_eriksonquiz.htm

Suggested Reading:

Horney, K. (1937). The Neurotic Personality of Our Time. New York: W. W. Norton.

Sullivan, H. S. (1953). The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. New York: W. W. Norton.

Mitchell, Steven and Margaret Black. (1996.) Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought. New York: Basic Books.

9. Personality and Traits

Interesting story of group behavior at Discovery.com
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery-02.html

Gordon Allport from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Allport

Short bio of R. Cattell with many links to other theorists at Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/rcattell.shtml

Open letter from Cattell to APA published shortly before his death.
http://www.cattell.net/devon/openletter.htm

Factor Analysis. What it can and cannot do. Richard. B. Darlington at Cornell University.
http://www.psych.cornell.edu/Darlington/factor.htm

Suggested Reading:

McCrae, R. R., & John, O. P. (1992). An Introduction to the Five Factor Model and its Applications. Journal of Personality, 60, 175–215.

Pettigrew, T. F. The Ultimate Attribution Error: Extending Allport's Cognitive Analysis of Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4, 461-476 (1979) DOI: 10.1177/014616727900500407

10. Behaviorist Views of Personality

Biography of Pavlov from Nobel Prize.org. Be sure to play Pavlov’s dog game.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html

BF Skinner from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Skinner

Skinner on reinforcement from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepqpTtKbwo

Short doc on Skinner. Notice pigeon and success approximations from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm5FGrQEyBY

Noam Chomsky. A review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. From Chomsky.info.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm

Victor Frankl on Behaviorism from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luONY67yr2w&feature=related

Suggested Reading:

Abrams, M., & Reber, A. (1988). Implicit learning: Robustness in the face of psychiatric disorders. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 17, 425–439.

Pettigrew, T. F. The Ultimate Attribution Error: Extending Allport's Cognitive Analysis of Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4, 461-476 (1979) DOI: 10.1177/014616727900500407

11. Humanistic Views of Personality 287

Association for Humanistic Psychology
http://www.ahpweb.org/aboutahp/whatis.html

Abraham Maslow from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

Video: Rollo May: Existential Anxiety from Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&q=rollo%20may%20university&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=rollo%20may%20%20&hl=en&emb=0

Video: Rollo May: What is existential psychology? from Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&q=rollo%20may%20university&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=rollo%20may%20%20&hl=en&emb=0

The History Channel Short audio clip of Timothy Leary: Turn on, tune in, drop out. From History.com.
http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=cd6track08

12. Carl Rogers and Humanist Psychotherapy 313

Carl Rogers from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers

British Association for the Person Centred Approach
http://www.bapca.org.uk/

Videotaped presentations by and therapy sessions with Carl Rogers from Saybrook Graduate School.
http://www.carlrogers.info/video.html

Suggested Reading:

Rogers, C. (1961). On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

13. Early Cognitive Views of Personality

The Gestalt Archive: Articles in full text. Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications.
http://gestalttheory.net/gtax1.html#kap2

Albert Bandura narrates the Bobo doll experiment from Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=albert+bandura&hl=en&emb=0#

Online Journal: Personal Construct Theory and Practice
http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/

Julian Rotter from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Rotter

Suggested Reading:

Bandura, A. (2006). Toward a psychology of human agency. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1(2), 164–180

Bandura, A. (1983). Self-efficacy determinants of anticipated fears and calamities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45(2), 464–469.

14. Biology, Genetics, and the Evolution of Personality

Center for Evolutionary Studies: Leda Cosmides & John Tooby, Directors.
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/2

Evolutinary Psychology: A Primer
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html

Is moral sense evolutionary? Steve Pinker audio on NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18482797

Interactive brain 101 model from National Geographic.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/brain-article.html

15. Abnormal Personality and Personality Disorders

BehaveNet Clinical Capsule: DSM IV-TR diagnostic categories on-line at Behavenet.
http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/dsmivtrcodes.htm

Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research.
http://www.beckinstitute.org/Library/InfoManage/Guide.asp?FolderID=200&SessionID={0E921825-4CF5-45B8-B1C4-B297E7E3F808}

Beck & Ellis at APA Convention, 2008
http://www.fenichel.com/Beck-Ellis.shtml

The Lazarus Institute
http://www.thelazarusinstitute.com/index.html

Suggested Reading:

Beck, A. T., Freeman, A., & Davis, D. D. (2004). Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

Ellis, A. (1994b). The Treatment of Borderline Personalities With Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 12(2), 101–119.

Ellis, A. (1995a). Psychotherapy is Alarmingly Encumbered With Disposable Myths. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 32(3), 495–499.

Ellis, A. (1979). Toward a New Theory of Personality. In A. Ellis & J.M. Whiteley (Eds.), Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Rational-Emotive Therapy (pp. 7–32). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.

16. Albert Ellis and the Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory of Personality

Link to the Albert Ellis Institute.
http://www.albertellisinstitute.org/aei/index.html2"

My Philosophy of Psychotherapy. Albert Ellis. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
My Philosophy of Psychotherapy

Emotional Disturbance in a Nutshell. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
Emotional Disturbance in a Nutshell

Albert Allis Biography and Research Site
http://www.rebt.ws/

Albert Ellis at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis

Techniques for Disputing Irrational Beliefs. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
Techniques for Disputing

Video: Ellis circa 1965 at YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-wTzoQZ_s&feature=related

Video: Ellis speaks with a widow, and about his own illness from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBHd1OdLMRg&feature=related

Video: Ellis with client on suicide. Courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute.
See Attached file: Al on Suicide Ch.16

17. Religious, New Age, and Traditional Approaches to Personality 529

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/

Naikan from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naikan

World Health Organization fact sheet on Traditional Medicine
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/print.html

Suggested Reading:

Reynolds, D.K, (1977). Naikan therapy- an experiential view. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 23, No. 4, 252-263 (1977) DOI: 10.1177/002076407702300404

Takahashi, T., & Aizawa, S. (1973). Morita-oriented group psychotherapy for Taijin-kyofu-sho (or the Japanese type of social phobia) cases characterized by withdrawal tendencies. Journal of Morita Therapy, 10, 1–12.