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For thousands of years humans have communicated with one another and explored the meaning of life. This book answers some long-sought-after questions.

This classic book is comprised of over six dozen articles, drawings, and photo-essays selected to apply psychology to your development as a person. These selections explore six themes: identity, human communication, growth dynamics, feelings and emotions, human relationship, and quality of life. Readings have immediate relevance and application to everyday life and provoke thought and discussion. More than half the readings to this edition are new.

All chapters begin with Introduction, Overview, and conclude with Applied Activities
Identity
The Search for Identity: A Modern Problem
The Basic Relationship
Harrison Bergeron
Rubricizing
Suddenly I'm the Adult?
I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love
The Myth of the Miserable Working Woman
On Being a Man
Excerpt from Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together
If I Were a Car, I'd Be A Lemon
Think "People First", Ohio Public Images/Public Images Network
Don't Look Too Closely
Occupational Exploration
To a Body, With Love
Human Communication
Interpersonal Communication
John Steinbeck on Listening
To Hear and To Be Heard
A Teacher Hears, A Middle School Teacher
Self-Disclosure
You Just Don't Understand
Assertive, Nonassertive, and Aggressive Behavior
King of the Purple Tree
Growth Dynamics
Uniqueness
The Meaning of Personal Growth
Responsibility
Herbie
Just a Regular Kid
A Fifth Grade Teacher and Graduate Student
New Passages
Lesson of the Cliff
Small Terrors, Secret Heroics
Using Our Flaws and Faults
No One's Perfect
Getting Unstuck: Joyfully Recreating Your Life
The Pace of Growth
An Undergraduate Student
Emotions & Feelings
Feeling Good
Emotional Intelligence
The Positive Face of Anxiety
Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
The Causes of Loneliness
My Tyrant
You Never Know
Little Joys
Jealousy and Envy: The Demons Within Us
Sarcasm and Apathy, A Graduate Student and Teacher
On the Death of a Father
"Loss and Mourning," Excerpt from Necessary Losses
The Madness Personality Inventory
Human Relationships
Ending the Battle Between the Sexes
The Dance of Intimacy
Sometimes It Rains
The Monster
What Friends Are For
"Kinds of Friends," Excerpt from Necessary Losses
Lamenting the Fading of Friendships
The Secret World of Siblings
The Human Potential of Whip Gim
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Psychology and Personal Growth

Psychology and Personal Growth

0205136990

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