NPA Theory of Personality
NPA Theory of Personality

Author: Anthony Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-10-19

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1312606193

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by A.M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D. This is the updated hardcover edition of NPA personality theory, originally published as "Toward Self & Sanity: On the genetic origins of the human character" by Psychological Dimensions Press in 1985. It has been updated and contains recently published work: a seventeen page synopsis of the NPA theory, and an article on personality traits in the Australian Aborigines. It contains the original version of the NPA theory as derived from the ideas of Karen Horney. The three NPA traits, posited to be of genetic origins, are sanguinity, perfectionism and aggression. Most of the text is written in question-and-answer (Q & A) format. Book properties: Trade quality hardcover with dust jacket (6" x 9"), 547 pages, 21 figures, 9 tables, 48 plates, glossary, addendum, index.

NPA Personality Theory in Images
NPA Personality Theory in Images

Author: A.M. Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-07-20

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0359803458

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by A. M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D. This book brings together 171 evocative images that illustrate the essential elements of the NPA model of personality. Particular attention is given to gestures, poses and behaviorisms. Personality types are illustrated with the use of caricatures of well-known individuals and images of historical figures, where you will meet individuals as diverse as Mary Lincoln, Angela Merkel and Rasputin. Topics include narcissism, perfectionism, aggression, dominance and submissiveness, inversions, as well as conditions such as the autistic savant, Down's syndrome and panic disorder. A chapter of images is devoted to the evolutionary origins of personality traits and to their geographic distribution. For readers not acquainted with the NPA model, a synopsis of the basic theory is included in the Appendix. For those interested in a novel theory of personality based on genetic traits, this book would serve as a fine introduction. Hardcover, 236 pp., synopsis, maps, glossary.

Caricatures of the NPA Personality Types
Caricatures of the NPA Personality Types

Author: A.M. Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-04-06

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1365875180

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by A.M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D. You may have heard the conventional wisdom that "many, many genes" contribute to personality, so "there is no such thing as a personality type". We take the contrarian view: We show that a few basic traits are inherited, and that combinations of the traits not only give rise to personality types, but they also explain WHY the types behave as they do. The underlying theory explains the concepts of narcissism, perfectionism, aggression. It clarifies the distinction between personality and temperament, as well as relationships of dominance and submission and of "morbid dependency". A vignette is included that describes a symbiotic relationship called "the power behind the throne", where the Power is a perfectionistic-aggressive individual bent on domination. The book is illustrated with caricatures of well-known individuals, and it includes a synopsis of the NPA model, referencing in particular the pioneering work of Karen Horney. Paperback, 164 pp., illus., glossary, index.

How Your Personality Type Is Inherited
How Your Personality Type Is Inherited

Author: A.M. Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-27

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 136599919X

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by A.M. Benis, ScD, MD. The purpose of this book is to allow you, the reader, to see how your personality type was inherited. Our premise is that everyone has several major personality traits resulting from just a few genes, and that we can trace the traits in a family tree. By personality type, we mean that the traits assort themselves - one, two or three traits together. There are three basic traits and about a dozen common personality types. If you are not familiar with the NPA model, the introductory chapters will bring you up to speed quickly. Next, we present twenty "case studies" that illustrate how the personality traits are transmitted. Here, you will meet Giovanni and Pania, Bogdan and Lulu, as well as King Lucifer IV and his many mistresses. Each of the cases has an instructive element, and when you are through with the illustrations, you should be in good form to do your own analysis... of yourself, your family, your significant other, and even of children who are not yet born. Hardcover, 157 pp.

NPA Personality Theory: the Essentials
NPA Personality Theory: the Essentials

Author: A. M. Benis

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9781521399910

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by A.M. Benis, ScD, MD. This landmark book brings together the essential elements of the NPA personality model. The premise is that every individual has several major personality traits resulting from just a few genes. The traits assort themselves in various combinations to give discrete "personality types" that anyone can learn to recognize. There are three basic traits and about a dozen common personality types. For those not familiar with the NPA model, there is ample introductory material so that the general reader can understand the model and apply it to one's personal life. Included are the twenty original "Case studies" that illustrate how the personality traits are inherited from parents to offspring. Here you will meet Giovanni and Pania, Zoey and Effinem, as well as King Lucifer IV and his many mistresses. Each of the "cases" has an instructive element to make the quantitative aspects of the theory easy to understand. The book concludes with a detailed chapter on the geographic distribution of the NPA traits throughout the world. Finally, there are two appendices: one that clarifies the parallel relationships between "narcissism" and "sadism", and a second appendix that describes the online "NPA personality test" by which the reader can self-diagnose his or her genetic personality type. Paperback, 123 pp., color illustr., charts, maps, glossary.

The Enigma of Short Parents Who Have Tall Children
The Enigma of Short Parents Who Have Tall Children

Author: A.M. Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-06-02

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1387854194

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For decades, geneticists have been puzzled by families where both of the parents are short, or of normal stature, but some of the children - even all of the children - are tall. This book presents a solution to the enigma, and it comes from an unlikely source: a theory of personality based on genetic traits. It shows that a simple mechanism, based on classical genetics, can explain some very complicated families where there are short parents, but very tall children alongside of children of normal stature. The author uses case examples to derive the solution to the puzzle. Here you will meet Sylvester and Wendy, Yevgeny who works in the Kremlin, and the Estonian sea captain, Feliks. The illustrative examples show how the dissimilarity of stature in families can have a precise genetic cause. The cause is shown to come from both the father's and mother's side of the family, and is not due to recessive genes or to some vagabond gene from one side of the family. Paperback, 90 pp., synopsis, glossary, illustrated.

Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China
Materials for an Anatomy of Personality in Late Imperial China

Author: Paolo Santangelo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9047430972

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How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China. It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one’s and the other’s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.

SmartHelp for Good 'n' Angry Kids
SmartHelp for Good 'n' Angry Kids

Author: Frank Jacobelli

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780470744574

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SmartHelp for Good ‘n’ Angry Kids provides the reader with an innovative tool for determining a child’s individual learning strengths, and for pairing this information with specific, carefully crafted activities that teach the child about anger and its appropriate expression. Provides innovative tools for identifying each child's individual learning strengths Includes Personalized Learning – providing primary, secondary and tertiary techniques to suit your child A vital supplement to standard psychotherapeutic approaches such as play therapy, cognitive behavioural, family therapy and traditional anger management techniques

Toward Self & Sanity: On the Genetic Origins of the Human Character
Toward Self & Sanity: On the Genetic Origins of the Human Character

Author: Sc D. M. D. Anthony M. Benis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09-22

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0615262147

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by Anthony M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D. This is a paperback Second Edition of the version published in 1985 by Psychological Dimensions Press, updated to 2008. It is the original version of the NPA personality theory derived from the ideas of Karen Horney. The NPA traits, posited to be of genetic origins, are narcissism, perfectionism and aggression. The text is written in question-and-answer (Q & A) format. Book properties: Oversize paperback (7.4"" x 9.7""), 521 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables, 48 plates, glossary, addendum, index. Glossy cover: the front and back covers may be seen [here]. ISBN 978-0-615-26214-7