At Play in the Fields of Consciousness : Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer

by Singer, Jefferson A.; Salovey, Peter; Salovey, Peter; Pervin, Lawrence A.

• ISBN13: 9780805826371
• ISBN10: 0805826378
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

The primary purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career in psychology, this volume demonstrates the broad and integrative influence the study of consciousness is having across a variety of subdisciplines of psychology--experimental, personality, developmental, social, and clinical. The contributors to this volume represent both pioneers in the study of consciousness and contemporary researchers whose work has followed in the spirit of their predecessors' seminal work. This book will serve as a landmark end-of-the-century statement about psychology's understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children, and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I: CONSCIOUSNESS AND REPRESENTATION
Toward a Neurocognitive Processing Model of Imaginal Thought	3	(26)
John S. Antrobus
Thought Flow: Properties and Mechanisms Underlying Shifts in Content	29	(22)
Eric Klinger
The Interpretation of Dreams from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experimental Self-Theory	51	(32)
Seymour Epstein
Independent Emotions and Consciousness: Self-Consciousness and Dependent Emotions	83	(20)
Carroll E. Izard
Brian P. Ackerman
David Schultz
Streams of thought About the Self and Significant Others: Transference as the Constrction of Interpersonal Meaning	103	(40)
Noah S. Glassman
Susan M. Anderson
PART II: COGNITION AND PERSONALITY
A Framework for the Study of Individual Differences in Personality Formations	143	(32)
John D. Mayer
Consciousness and Meaning	175	(32)
Shulamith Kreitler
Consciousness Makes a Difference	207	(18)
Seymour Feshbach
Cognitive and Affective, Empirical and Clinical Aspects of Problems of Volition	225	(24)
Lawrence A. Pervin
PART III: CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERSONALITY IN CONTEXT
Emotional Dissociation, Self-Deception, and Psychotherapy	249	(22)
George A. Bonanno
Hoorie I. Siddique
Modes of Conscious Representation and Their Exploration Through Psychotherapy	271	(16)
Mardi Horowitz
Jack Kerouac: The Pulse of Memory	287	(16)
Delmont Morrison
Imaginative Play and Television: Factors in a Child's Development	303	(24)
Dorothy G. Singer
Author Index	327	(10)
Subject Index	337