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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by shawnsmith[/i] [br]THE NORMAL PERSONALITY: A New Way of Thinking About People by STEVEN REISS Freud is dead, but psychoanalysis is not. His practice of probing patients for unconscious factors has been criticized for making sexual or aggressive desires appear stronger than they are in reality. Here, Reiss takes the criticism one step farther by arguing that the diagnoses of personality disorders, as well as the role of the unconscious, is not well grounded. In a time when children, and even house hold pets, swallow Prozac, Reiss revives a neglected diagnosis for worrywarts, wallflowers, daydreamers, pessimists, and eccentrics alike: normal. He broadens normality by outlining how abnormal behaviors can arise when life motives are obstructed or personal values contradicted. Reiss lists how various combinations of 16 basic desires lead to dilemmas that eventually bring people to counseling. He offers a way to manage personal problems, without cracking the medicine cabinet or the skeleton closet. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 201 p., hardcover, $26.00. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.