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 Darwinian view -- Basic concepts in an evolutionary model -- Adaptive processes 1: stability -- Adaptive processes 2: change -- A cost-benefit view of psychosocial adaptation -- 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 experiences -- New directions in culture and personality research.