Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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The ambivert: A failed attempt at a normal personality

Ian J. Davidson

This paper traces the history of the ambivert, a nearly forgotten personality label first proposed by Edmund S. Conklin in 1923. The ambivert was meant to describe people who fall between introversion and extraversion. The idea was largely ignored by psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and personality psychologists, so it did not become…

Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Child Therapy and Development Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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