This book was written in 1997 apparently, but it reads like it was written in 1897. It was another enforced purchase for a grad school class. Thoroughly not recommended. The chapters on character and personality were fairly decent but I thought the rest was horribly outdated,stale and unrealistic. The "stories" at the end of the chapters are laughable and its also hilarious that they had to make them up. In all their vast years of education experience they couldnt think of actual true stories to demonstrate the silliness that preceded them.