Margaret M. Riggs’s scientific contributions

Reviews the book, The human person, an approach to an integral theory of personality by Magda B. Arnold and John A. Gasson (see record 1954-08273-000). Most of the chapters of this book were originally given as papers at the Barat College Workshop in Personality in 1951. Nine are by various Catholic psychologists; the remaining ten by the authors supplement and extend the series. The entire volume represents an approach to personality based on certain underlying religious and philosophical assumptions concerning the nature of man. The authors suggest this volume may be used as a primary text for courses in personality. It is doubtful whether it would be accepted in the usual secular college or university. However, the specifically Catholic emphasis is not great; if the factual material usually found in a text were supplied from some other source, religious institutions of other kinds, e.g. theological seminaries, schools of divinity, might find it useful, congenial, and challenging. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)