Summary: Personality disorders come in various varieties and degrees of severity, including persistent, ingrained behavior patterns; extreme deviant behavior; and problems in social functioning. Histrionic disorder, anankastic disorder, anxiety disorder, and dependent disorder are the common categories. This program, filmed in the U.K., looks at the most common disorders-paranoid, histrionic, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Littauer, Florence
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F.H. Revell Co. 1992
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.2 LITSummary: This video demonstrates the connections between personality, interests, and work preferences. Students get in touch with their primary interest patterns and aspects of their personality through various exercises.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kellerman, Henry.
Contents: Publisher's foreword -- Introduction -- The wiring of the personality -- Remembering -- Wishes and symptoms -- Acting-out -- Impulse versus control -- Defense mechanisms -- The basic personality styles -- The obsessive-compulsive style -- The paranoid style -- The schizoid style -- The histrionic style (hysterical) -- The narcissistic style -- The psychopathic style (antisocial) -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Mental Health Foundation 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 KELSummary: The 100 billion cells that make up the brain communicate electrically over 1,000 trillion neural connections at up to 250 miles per hour-and from this sparking of electrical power grows the personality and its behavior. This program explores how personalities are shaped during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, exposing how traits such as extroversion and introversion develop. Additional...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A portrait of musical iconoclast David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi. From his days leading The New York Dolls to his reinvention as lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, David Johansen is a chameleonic one-of-a-kind performer. Featuring a live performance at Cafe Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PERJ Burke J Van Heusen
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Burke and Van Heusen 1945
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Does addiction have a genetic factor? Can any type of addiction be treated medically? What steps can family members take to help a loved one struggling with addiction? This program provides answers to several addiction-related questions, focusing on the complexities of the addictive personality. Viewers will benefit from a case study featuring a patient with a serious gambling addiction, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Myers, Isabel Briggs.
Summary: Written by the creator of the most widely used personality profile, this bestselling book explains the essential personality types as described by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and shows how these relate to daily life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Davies-Black Pub. 1995
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psych MyersSummary: "Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from MPD (multiple personality disorder) and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer. Now a new series of murders have started and the suspect claimed to be Shinji Nishizono. Could it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eiji Ohtsuka Office/MPD Psycho Project 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MPDIves, Burl
Contents: Big rock candy mountain -- Blue tail fly -- Lavender blue (Dilly dilly) -- One hour ahead of the posse -- On top of ol' Smoky -- True love goes on and on -- Polly wolly doodle -- A Little bitty tear -- Royal telephone -- Home on the range -- Funny way of laughin' -- Call me Mr. In-between -- Pearly shells (Popo o ewa) -- It never happens -- My heart stood still -- By the light of the silvery...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK IVESummary: Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a completely preventable medical condition. Studies show that the average MPD patient spends seven years and receives three incorrect diagnoses before receiving an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. It is now recognized that MPD is the result of severe childhood trauma, usually sexual and physical abuse-and it develops as a coping mechanism in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Emre, Merve
Summary: "An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches, and the military. Its language--of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EMRSummary: This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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James, Greg
Summary: Murph Cooper, eleven, is out of his depth when his mother unknowingly enrolls him in a school for superheroes, but his normalcy may be just what is needed to defeat King Nektar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMBirkman Fink, Sharon
Contents: You are here! taking the Birkman -- Identifying your strengths -- The components -- Esteem and acceptance -- The power of structure -- Authority : a boss or just bossy? -- Advantage and activity: are you in it to win it -- Empathy and thought how your emotions can help or hurt a decision -- Are you a frustrated maverick in the workplace? -- Challenge the wide angle : how do i look?.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.283 FINConway, Flo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stillpoint Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.25 CONKriechbaumer, Armin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.76 KRISummary: Daniel Turnbull has a love of London, an obsession with hygiene, and a compulsion to dance. This program explores his rare personality disorder and describes one psychiatrist's attempt to help him create as normal a life as possible. Viewers will learn about Daniel's previous quests for independence, the behavior that got him blacklisted by most of London's assisted-living facilities, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Oxnam, Robert B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OXNAM, ROBERT OXNSummary: Originally thought to be situated at the "borderline" of psychosis, borderline personality disorder is a condition affecting emotion regulation. This program opens a window of understanding into the excruciating reality of life with BPD by examining the experiences of Rachael and Maria. "My plan was to be dead by 30," says Rachael. Hers is a rocky road that has included sexual abuse, self-harm,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Mason, Paul T.
Summary: Discusses the signs and symptoms of borderline personality disorder and explains how the families and friends of patients can cope with BPD behavior while taking care of themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind MasonTieger, Paul D.
Summary: This book leads you step-by-step through the process of determining and verifying your personality type, providing real-life case studies of people who share your type and introducing you to the key ingredients your work must have for it to be genuinely fulfilling. Using workbook exercises and explaining specific job search strategies, Do What You Are identifies occupations that are popular...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 TIERubin, Gretchen
Summary: Best selling author Gretchen Rubin reveals the surprising truth about the four hidden personality types that drive everything people do. Listeners will learn how to understand themselves better, and also how to influence others more effectively.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017