- Overview
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Surprising stories on human nature analyzed psychologically and combined with philosophy and science.
- Book Intro
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A dictionary of concepts integrating all human personalities
This book contains everything about personalities that we need to know: What is a personality?; Are personalities innate or acquired?; What effects do our personalities have on our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors?; Can we measure and classify personalities?; What personality do I belong to?; How are normal and abnormal personalities separated?; What are good and bad personalities?; and Can we change our personalities?
In retrospect of our own behavior, we tend to search for external factors that rationalize ourselves rather than think that something is due to our personalities. Conversely, we tend to think another person's behavior is due to his or her personality. Accordingly, when we talk about a third person, we easily say, That person has such problem in his or her personality, while few of us acknowledge such a thing when it comes to our own problems. When a person says something or acts in a certain way, there are unique reasons for that.
So what is a personality and how can we define a personality scientifically? This book classifies personalities into 14 categories, including personality types, personality characteristics, personality factors, cognitive structure, personality development, personality tests and personality disorders, analyzing the sources of personalities using 74 keywords according to the 14 categories. To this end, philosophical concepts and numerous intriguing psychological experiments and research results regardless of the East and the West are employed. In particular, the main concepts and theories related to personalities have been interestingly tracked to the origins of the terms and the historical backgrounds ranging from the historical flow of exploration into human personalities in ancient times. This is regardless of differences between the East and the West such as physical constitution, physiognomy, phrenology, the lines of one's palm, astrology, and saju (fate) to personality psychology, cognitive psychology and positive psychology in the present time.
- About the Author
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Choi Hyunsuk
Choi Hyunsuk graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine and received his MA and PhD at the same school. He finished his internship and internal medicine residency at Seoul National University Hospital and served as a professor of internal medicine at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, a director of the internal medicine department at Samsung Cheil Hospital, and the president of Seoul Hyun Hospital. Currently, Choi runs the Prime Nursing Hospital. Books written by Choi Hyunsuk include Dictionary of Our Body Told through Culture, Every Sense of a Human, Every Emotion of a Human and Every Motivation of a Human. Choi won the 39th Donga Medicine Award for Dictionary of Our Body Told through Culture in 2007.
