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This book examines the varieties of self-exchange and factors that can influence it. It takes a much-needed step toward linking the concerns of the academic self-researcher and the consumer of research pertaining to changing the self. Throughout the book, understanding and accounting for change in the self emerges as a vitally important concern across a wide range of human experience.
"This book represents an interesting effort to examine the concept of self from a variety of different disciplinary and professional perspectives and to bring together in a single work some of the obviously rich diversity in thinking that this concept has attracted.
"The topic is very significant, especially at a time when individuals in our society are only beginning to see some of the results of preoccupation of self, as well as insufficient attention to it. As a concept of scholarly interest, self is beginning to receive attention well beyond the traditional communities of psychiatry and clinical psychology. The volume makes that breadth of interest apparent." — Dennis S. Gouran, The Pennsylvania State University
Contributors
Introduction
Thomas M. Brinthaupt and Richard P. Lipka
Part 1: Philosophies of Changing the Self
1. Changes in the Self from a Developmental/Psychosocial Perspective
Don Hamachek
2. Cluttered Terrain: The Schools' Interest in the Self
James A. Beane
3. Changing the Delinquent Self
Martin Gold
4. Changing the Religious Self and the Problem of Rationality
P. J. Watson
Part 2: Techniques of Changing the Self
5. Shrinking the Self
Roy F. Baumeister and Joseph M. Boden
6. Conceptualizing and Changing the Self from a Rational Therapy Perspective
Charles Zastrow
7. The Transtheoretical Model of Change
Diane Grimley, James O. Prochaska, Wayne F. Velicer, Linelle M. Blais, and Carlo C. DiClemente
8. Pathways to Internalization: When does Overt Behavior Change the Self-Concept?
Dianne M. Tice
Part 3: Experiences of Changing the Self
9. Self-change Experiences of Psychotherapists
John C. Norcross and Darren C. Aboyoun
10. Self and Self-loss in Mystical Experience
Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
11. Minority Identity and Self-Concept: The American Indian Experience
John M. Dodd, J. Ron Nelson, and Bonnie Henderson Hofland
12. Disability and the Self
S. Kay Toombs
Subject Index
Author Index