3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Canadian clinical psychologist at UBC whose research on perfectionism — distinguishing self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially-prescribed perfectionism — has produced the most nuanced and clinically useful framework for understanding perfectionism's psychological costs.
Jeffrey Gray's 1982 account of anxiety — proposing the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) as the neural mechanism underlying anxiety — integrating animal learning, pharmacology, and neuroanatomy in the most comprehensive biological theory of anxiety.
W. Keith Campbell is a social psychologist and professor at the University of Georgia known as one of the world's leading researchers on narcissism. He co-authored The Narcissism Epidemic with Jean Twenge, documenting rising narcissism scores in American society, and has written extensively on the psychology, measurement, and social consequences of narcissistic personality traits.