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Holistic Healing

The Foundations of Personality

Abraham Myerson

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Abraham Myerson asked what makes a person who they are, tracing character to body, habit and the world outside. His book weighs heredity against environment, memory against choice, in the search for the roots of personality. A thoughtful period synthesis of psychology and human nature. Explore an early map of what shapes the self.

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20 chapters

  1. 1THE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3THE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY
  4. 4CHAPTER I. THE ORGANIC BASIS OF CHARACTER
  5. 5CHAPTER II. THE ENVIRONMENTAL BASIS OF CHARACTER
  6. 6CHAPTER III. MEMORY AND HABIT
  7. 7CHAPTER IV. STIMULATION, INHIBITION, ORGANIZING ENERGY, CHOICE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
  8. 8CHAPTER V. HYSTERIA, SUBCONSCIOUSNESS AND FREUDIANISM
  9. 9CHAPTER VI. EMOTION, INSTINCT, INTELLIGENCE AND WILL
  10. 10CHAPTER VII. EXCITEMENT, MONOTONY AND INTEREST
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII. THE SENTIMENTS OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, HATE, PITY AND DUTY. COMPENSATION AND ESCAPE
  12. 12CHAPTER IX. ENERGY RELEASE AND THE EMOTIONS
  13. 13CHAPTER X. COURAGE, RESIGNATION, SUBLIMATION, PATIENCE, THE WISH, AND ANHEDONIA
  14. 14CHAPTER XI. THE EVOLUTION OF CHARACTER WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GROWTH OF PURPOSE AND PERSONALITY
  15. 15CHAPTER XII. THE METHODS OF PURPOSE—WORK CHARACTERS
  16. 16CHAPTER XIII. THE QUALITIES OF THE LEADER AND THE FOLLOWER
  17. 17CHAPTER XIV. SEX CHARACTERS AND DOMESTICITY
  18. 18CHAPTER XV. PLAY, RECREATION, HUMOR AND PLEASURE SEEKING

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