Title: The life and work of an eminent psychologist
First published: 1998
Description: This book is an intellectual and personal history of Richard Lazarus, a psychologist whose pioneering research and theories in stress, coping, and emotion continue to have a worldwide influence.

The author interweaves the account of his personal life and career with the developments of psychology as an academic discipline during the past five decades. His reminiscences offer glimpses of academic life, university politics, and also his growing contacts with the European and Japanese colleagues who invited him to lecture. The book concludes with his thoughts about aging, retirement, and issues of life and death.
Subjects: Spiritual biography, Psychologists, Biography, Psychologists, biography, Psychology
Places: United States
People: Richard S. Lazarus
LC classification: BF109.L38 A3 1998