Identity and the new psychoanalytic explorations of self-organization / Mardi Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, Mardi Jon, 1934- author.

Series:

Psychological issues ; 72.

Psychological issues (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xvii, 125 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"Advances in science and the humanities have demonstrated the complexity of psychological, social and neurological factors influencing identity. A contemporary discourse is needed to anchor the concepts required in speaking about identity in present day understanding. In Identity and the New Psychoanalytic Explorations of Self-organization, Mardi Horowitz offers new ways of speaking about parts of self, explaining what causes a range of experiences from solidity in grounding the self to disturbances in a sense of identity. The book covers many aspects of both the formation and the deconstruction of identity. Horowitz examines themes including: The sense of identity; Social learning; Biological learning; Identity and self-esteem; and Levels of personality functioning and growth. The book clarifies basic questions, defines useful terms, examines typical identity disturbances and presents a biopsychosocial theory which indicates how schemas operate in conscious and unconscious mental processing. The answers to the basic questions lead to improvements in psychotherapy practices as well as teaching and research methods." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction / by Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D

Questioning identity

Identity disturbances

Learning self, psychologically

Social learning and identity formation

Biological schematization : modular connectivity

Personality functioning : levels of person schematic organization and variations in

Identity sense and personality disorder

Identity and self-esteem

Identity change during mourning the loss of a loved one

Appendix: lines of research on self-organization : quantitative and qualitative methodology

References

Glossary of terms

Index

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415736190

0415736196

9780415736206

041573620X

OCLC:

871199808