"Unchanged reprint of the 1982 2nd ed."--Publisher's communication.

Basic questions for culture and personality research -- Group differences in individual behavior patterns -- Theoretical conceptions of culture-personality relations -- Concepts of socialization -- Methods of assessing personality -- Institutions, deviance and change -- The applicability of a Darwininan view -- Basic concepts in an evolutionary model -- Adaptive processes 1 : stability -- Adaptive processes 2 : Change -- A cost-benefit view of psychosocial adaptations -- Strategies in personality study -- Psychoanalytic clinical method -- The couch and the field -- Universal categories and the translation problem -- Psychoanalytic ethnography : structures for comparative observation -- Religious symbols and religious experience -- New directions in culture and personality research -- The self in culture.