Inventing Personality
Subtitle: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); American Psychological Association
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781557989291
Subjects: Biography: general; The self, ego, identity, personality; United States; Mental Health; Biography; Reference; Psychology; Personality; Medical - General; Allport, Gordon W; History; (Gordon Willard),; 1897-1967; Psychologists
Description: "Inventing Personality examines the early career of Gordon Allport (1897-1967) to reveal the history of the personality category he championed. Drawing on an extensive array of previously unpublished biographical materials, Ian A. M. Nicholson combines biography with intellectual history to reveal the ways in which Allport's science was embedded in the cultural politics of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

He argues that personality's emergence as an object of science was linked to the gradual demise of character and the self-sacrificing, morally grounded self that it supported. This book will be invaluable to scholars and practitioners interested in personality, and it will serve as a model of scientific biography."--BOOK JACKET.