The discipline of Personality Psychology is undergoing a renaissance.  The new textbook, Personality: A Systems Approach,  has been designed to help students keep up.  The book is constructed according to an exciting new roadmap that draws on the field’s best and most  longstanding intellectual traditions.  By examining personality according to its defining qualities, parts, organization, and development, students understand human personality, including their own personalities, and the influence of personality on an individual’s life.