The Self in Transition

by Cicchetti, Dante; Beeghly, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780226106625
• ISBN10: 0226106624
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-11-08
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Twenty-four distinguished behavioral scientists present recent research on the self during the pivotal period of transition from infancy to childhood and place it in historical perspective, citing earlier work of such figures as William James, George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, and Heinz Kohut. Contributors are Elizabeth Bates, Marjorie Beeghly, Barbara Belmont, Leslie Bottomly, Helen K. Buchsbaum, George Butterworth, Vicki Carlson, Dante Cicchetti, James P. Connell, Robert N. Emde, Jerome Kagan, Robert A. LeVine, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Editha Nottelmann, Sandra Pipp, Marian Radke-Yarrow, Catherine E. Snow, L. Alan Sroufe, Gerald Stechler, Sheree L. Toth, Malcolm Watson, and Dennie Palmer Wolf.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Perspectives on the Study of the Self in Transition Dante Cicchetti and Marjorie Beeghly

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Self during the Transition Period Gerald Stechler

""Didn't You Hear My Mommy?"" Autonomy with Connectedness in Moral Self Emergence

Context, Self, and Action: A Motivational Analysis of Self-System Processes across the Life Span

Enculturation: A Biosocial Perspective on the Develop

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