I. Introduction -- 1 The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology -- II. Historical and Personal Background of the 1937 Texts -- 2 Fifty Years of the Psychology of Personality: Reminiscences -- 3 Allport's Personality and Allport's Personality -- 4 Allport and Murray on Allport's Personality: A Confrontation in 1946-1947 -- III. Current State of Personality Psychology and Its Texts -- 5 Pattern and Organization: Current Trends and Prospects for the Future -- 6 The Continuing Relevance of Personality Theory -- 7 It's Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can't We? -- IV. Present-Day Perspectives on Basic Issues -- 8 Science and the Single Case -- 9 Describing Lives: Gordon Allport and the "Science" of Personality -- 10 Gordon Allport and "Letters from Jenny" -- 11 Allport's Personal Documents: Then and Now -- 12 Conceptions of Self and Identity: A Modern Retrospective on Allport's View -- 13 Current Status of the Motive Concept -- 14 The Ability to Judge Others from Their Expressive Behaviors -- 15 Judgments of Personality and Personality Itself -- 16 Gordon Allport: Father and Critic of the Five-Factor Model -- 17 To Predict Some of the People More of the Time: Individual Traits and the Prediction of Behavior -- 18 The Scientific Credibility of Commonsense Psychology -- 19 A Commonsense Approach to Personality Measurement -- V. Epilogue -- 20 An Optimistic Forecast -- Author Index.