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The Self in Time
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 49.95Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool period that children first construct this form of self. By about four years of age, children can... more...
Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 96.00This text will be an essential volume for those interested in the interface between language, cognition, and behavior. more...
Persons
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on sociocultural experience, the concept... more...
Experiencing Identity
SAGE Publications 1998; US$ 51.95`I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities This critical and comprehensive examination of the relation of theory and identity discusses definitions of identity in classical social theory, modern social theory and... more...
The Damaged Core
Jason Aronson, Inc. 2009; US$ 34.99This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things back together. more...
Taking Care
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 25.00Taking Care examines the reasons why people take precautions - and the reasons why they do not. more...
Your Many Faces
Ten Speed Press 2011; US$ 11.99Each one of us has a medley of "faces" that composes our individual personality: intelligence, anger, love, jealousy, helplessness, courage, and many more. We're often quick to judge these characteristics as either positive or negative, without recognizing that we need each of them in order to become fuller, more balanced human beings. Originally... more...
Honoring the Self
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem," says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence--and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself--your self-esteem--is the single most important... more...
Selbsttäuschung
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 42.00Self-deception is a problematic phenomenon because it seems so deeply irrational. Previous philosophical accounts have not succeeded in making clear the way in which it is a "failure of reason." The present author argues that self-deception is a privative phenomenon, i.e. a deviation from immanent norms, as well an ethical phenomenon. According to... more...
Feeling, Being, and the Sense of Self
Karnac Books 2007; US$ 27.95This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche. It traces the development of the individual and, in particular, the development of the sense of self, which is understood to be intimately related to the individual's object relations and to play a crucial role in core clinical phenomena. The book outlines a new perspective on identity and... more...









