📚 Personality Development

Books with personality development on their catalogue record, first published between 1932 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject personality development in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,322 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Development across the life span	Robert S. Feldman	1997	52
	The collected works of C.G. Jung	Carl Gustav Jung	1953	34
	Lives in Progress	Robert Winthrop White	1952	26
	On shame and the search for identity	Helen Merrell Lynd	1958	22
	Working with Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	1998	20
	The Person	Dan P. McAdams	1990	19
	On Becoming a Person	Carl R. Rogers	1961	15
	A child's world	Diane E. Papalia	1975	11
	The Seasons of a man's life	Daniel J. Levinson	1978	11
	The developing person through the life span	Kathleen Stassen Berger	1983	10
	Necessary losses	Judith Viorst	1986	10
	Kunst und künstler	Otto Rank	1932	9
	Developmental tasks and education	Robert James Havighurst	1950	8
	Playing and reality	D. W. Winnicott	1971	8
	Why Love Matters	Sue Gerhardt	2003	8
	Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self	Peter Fonagy	2004	8
	Psychology of personal and social adjustment	Henry Clay Lindgren	1953	7
	Pattern and growth in personality	Gordon W. Allport	1961	7
	Social and personality development	David R. Shaffer	1979	7
	The life cycle completed	Erik H. Erikson	1982	7
	Personality Theories	Bem P. Allen	1994	7
	Parental Descriptions of Child Personality	Geldolph A. Kohnstamm	1998	7
	Personality development	Augusto Blasi	1998	7
	Paths to Successful Development	Lea Pulkkinen	2002	7
	The Success Principles	Jack Canfield	2004	7
	Lifespan Development	Denise A. Boyd	2008	7
	Knowing woman	Irene Claremont de Castillejo	1973	6
	Descartes' Baby	Paul Bloom	2004	6
	The Educated Subject and the German Concept of Bildung	Rebekka Horlacher	2015	6
	Becoming	Gordon W. Allport	1955	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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