Narrative identities : psychologists engaged in self-construction / edited by George Yancy and Susan Hadley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadley, Susan (Susan Joan), 1967-

Yancy, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychologists--Biography.

Psychologists.

Psychologists--Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors address challenging questions about identity in relation to personality development, language and socialisation. They demonstrate how their cultural and historical contexts influenced their theoretical approaches to the nature of `self' and how these ideas in turn shaped how they perceive their personal histories.

Contents:

Cover; Narrative Identities:Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction; Contents; PREFACE; 1 The Poetics of My Identities; 2 Lessons from Relics about Self and Identity; 3 Objects, Meanings,and Connections in My Life and Career; 4 From Poppies to Ferns: The Discursive Production of a Life; 5 Performing a Life (Story); 6 A Psychologist without a Country or Living Two Lives in the Same Story; 7 Life as a Symphony; 8 Moving On By Backing Away; 9 Living with Authority in "The Between"; 10 The Personal/Psychological and the Pursuit of a Profession; 11 On Growing Up as a"Premodernist"

12 Life Reflections of a Nomadic Subject 13 Autobiography; THE CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610349531

9781280349539

1280349530

9781846421396

184642139X

OCLC:

568029128