| Developmental Approaches to the Self Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Lee, Benjamin (Editor), Noam, Gil G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1461336163 ISBN-13: 9781461336167 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Gardening - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (animal Behavior) |
| Dewey: 155.25 |
| Series: Path in Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |