Exploring the essentials of healthy personality : what is normal? /

Woodall, Camay,

Exploring the essentials of healthy personality : what is normal? / Camay Woodall. - xx, 346 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Realism and the struggle with self-deception -- Self-esteem and self-confidence : the bedrock of healthy personality -- Spontaneity : playing with the whole keyboard -- Work and play : the antidote to depression -- Self-comforting and self-acceptance: the legacy of parental love -- Love and sex : the eternal knot -- Food? : the frustrating goddess? -- Shame and guilt : what is really mine? -- Assertion versus aggression : the fair way to stand up for yourself -- Mutual respect, vulnerability, and the price of narcissism -- Spirituality with tolerance : our fitful goal -- Conclusion -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

9781440831942 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1440831947 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2014007249


Personality.
Mental health.
Self-esteem.
Self-reliance.
Self-confidence.
Mental health.
Personality.
Self-confidence.
Self-esteem.
Self-reliance.

BF698 / .W66 2014

155.2