Joseph Rychlak's 1973 textbook presenting a comprehensive survey of personality theories from behaviorism to humanism, structured around his argument for teleological explanation in psychology.
Surveys the major schools of personality theory while arguing that human agency and purposiveness require final-cause explanations that purely mechanistic frameworks cannot provide.
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