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Killinger, Barbara. Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason
McGill-Queen's, 2007. 204p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780773532878
Killinger (a clinical psychologist and author of Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts, 1992) uses the concept of integrity as an umbrella to cover a wide range of personal qualities for living a moral, ethical, and spiritual existence. …
Killinger (a clinical psychologist and author of Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts, 1992) uses the concept of integrity as an umbrella to cover a wide range of personal qualities for living a moral, ethical, and spiritual existence. She divides the book into three sections. In part 1 the author defines integrity and relates the concept to traits such as honesty, sympathy, conscience, empathy, compassion, fairness, self-control, and duty. In part 2 she argues that integrity has been lost in much of contemporary culture and offers reasons why this is so. In part 3 she offers a series of lists that detail ways that people can improve the level of integrity in their own lives and in the lives of those around them. Killinger brings a Jungian approach to aspects of her discussion. The book moves across so much psychological ground that in sometimes reads as a textbook listing of terms and concepts from positive psychology. However, the book certainly provides a broad-ranging, comprehensive exploration of the concept of integrity and a detailed how-to guide for achieving it in one's life. Summing up: Recommended. Lower and upper-division undergraduates, professionals and general readers.
— R. Levine, California State University, Fresno
I’m a licensed mental health counselor in the State of Florida. I’ve recommended Workaholics: The Respectable Addicts to several clients and they’ve been greatly helped by that book. I recently urged another client to get the book and he’s told at several bookstores and at Amazon.com that the book is no longer available. Is it going to be out of print forever? I sincerely hope not.