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The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do

This guide explains personality through a self-test that places readers among fourteen distinct personality styles. The authors draw on the diagnostic framework used by psychiatrists, updated here to reflect newer research on how temperament and experience shape character. Each style is described alongside case histories that show how it plays out in love, at work and at home. Readers learn how to live and work with people of every type, and find exercises for turning personal weak spots into assets. The book also explains where ordinary differences in personality end and clinical personality disorders begin.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 464 pages

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