Silvan S. Tomkins

Irving E. Alexander

Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991) was one of the most radical and imaginative psychologists of the twentieth century. The implications of his conceptually daring and phenomenologically suggestive theory are only now — in the context of postmodernism — beginning to be understood.

A Silvan Tomkins Reader

Shame and Its Sisters

Looks at the lives, theories, and writings of Freud, Jung, and Sullivan to outline methods and guidelines for investigating and teaching personology and psychobiography.

Method and Content in Personality Assessment and Psychobiography

Personology

Yael E. Babad

Elisha Y. Babad

Study of children in the United States and Israel.

Developmental Patterns and Socialization Factors

Returning the Smile of the Stranger

Robert W. White

Charles Frederick Reed

Silvan Solomon Tomkins

"Five general areas are represented in the selections: (I) the problem of the effects of early experience on psychological development; (2) psychosomatic disorders and neurosis; (3) schizophrenic psychosis; (4) somatic factors in psychopathology; and (5) the social context and its effects on the phenomena of behavior."--

Irving E. Alexander

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