

He was well known as a psychologist and counseled John F. Self-consistency theory remains relevant to contemporary personality and clinical psychologists. Lecky's theory concerned the organization of ideas of the self and the self's overall need for a "master" motive that serves to maintain for the self a consistency in ideas. Lecky's self-consistency theory is that self-consistency is a primary motivating force in human behavior. Lecky stressed the defense mechanism of resistance as an individual's method of regulating his self-concept. George Kelly, in his book The Psychology of Personal Constructs, also credits Lecky as an influence. His concepts influenced Maxwell Maltz in his writing of the classic self-help book, Psycho-Cybernetics. Lecky, Prescott, Self Consistency: A Theory of Personality, Island Press. At a time when American psychology was dominated by behaviorism, he developed the concept of self-help as a method in psychotherapy of the self in the 1920s. A tube lab calls for attention to diet, self-poisoning through smoking. Prescott Lecky (1892-1941) was a lecturer of Psychology at Columbia University from 1924 to 1934. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Lecky, Prescott (1945), Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality.

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