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"This book presents the substance of six lectures delivered before a lay audience at the Lowell Institute, Boston, In February, 1933. The lectures attempted to give a more vivid and precise meaning to the word personality, and to stimulate the interest of those present in the driving forces of the individual life, but made no pretence to discuss exhaustively and systematically man and his destiny. The presentation was made as concrete as possible; specific examples of the individual in action were preferred to a discussion of general principles, biographies were borrowed from freely. Thus this book is somewhat a thing of shreds and patches. The patching may require apology; the shreds, however, are taken from the most valuable fabric that man deals with, the living fabric of the human personality. I should be glad to think that the shreds may have stimulated some to a fuller study of the total fabric, through which alone the structure of the world as a system of values and of strivings is revealed. The book makes no claim to originality; for the collection of the shreds I am indebted to many colleagues, but especially to the devoted colleague whom I have the honor to call my wife"--
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"The text which follows these introductory lines makes no pretense at covering the entire field of personality. Such an accomplishment seems destined to come about far in the future. However, this work, which is based largely on recent considerations, was written in the belief that there is needed as broad a coverage of the problem of personality as is now possible. It has been the belief of the authors for some time that such a book, prepared in organized and readable style, should be made available to students and others interested in this significant subject. Personality: An Interdisciplinary Approach has been written as a text for college and university courses entitled personality, development of personality, dynamics of personality, and the like. It contains much material which would be useful as well in courses in mental hygiene, child psychology and development, and educational psychology. The aim of the present work frankly has been pragmatic. The authors have asked themselves the question, Will the data presented be of some practical value? Personality, it should be evident, is part of the larger problem which makes up the lives of all members of a still young democratic society. With an interdisciplinary point of view as their guide and human need as the yardstick, students of personality hope to carry to completion their interesting work"--
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