Developmental Approaches to the Self (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)

Each of the three great schools of developmental psy- chology represented in this vo1ume--psychoana1ytic, cogni- tive-developmental, and Vygotskian--diverges in important ways. But more recent changes in each discipline have led to new possibilities for theoretical integrations. Each ori- entation has begun to focus upon the problem of "meaning construction", that is, how a person's subjectivity and con- sciousness is created through his interaction with signifi- cant others. Each discipline also discovered that as it switched to meaning and interpretation as the foci of their work, they had to reformulate and, in some cases, reject po- sitions taken by their founding figures. The papers in this volume attempt to describe the newest developments in each of these fields and to foster a theoretical dialogue around the concept of the self. The papers in this book emerged out of discussions at a Conference on the Self, sponsored by the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Chicago. For the psychoanalytic and cognitive-developmental ap- proaches, we can observe a transition from what we call the bio10gism of both traditional Freudian and Piagetian memta- psychologies to a more "communicative-interactionist" point of view. Psychoanalysts have focused on the subjective expe- rience of their patients as constituting a reality in its own right, and therefore have always focused upon problems of communication and interpretation. But Freud's emphasis on bio-sexua1 development led him to create a metapsycho1ogy in which the basic organizing principle is that of drive re- duction.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Path in Psychology
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1983
Editors:	Benjamin Lee • Gil G. Noam
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-3616-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour
LSN:	1-4613-3616-3
Barcode:	9781461336167

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