{"product_id":"knowing-self-changing-self-9781498575089","title":"Knowing Self Changing Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book uses philosophy, psychology, and autobiography in an innovative exploration of self and self-knowledge. It argues that our sense of who we are is an ever-changing response to the world of interpersonal experience, an essential project that is always subject to revision and change. It explores self-knowledge through linked topics. What characteristics make an individual identifiable and unique, and how are they experienced introspectively? What insight can be gained through the metaphors of acting and roles? How does fantasy plays a crucial part in self-definition and self-exploration? How do trust and fear define our perception of others and what is their contribution to our sense of self? The second half of the book uses the friendship of the authors, a philosopher and a psychologist, to investigate how one's ability to navigate the world, along with one's self-knowledge, changes through mutual care, respect, and complementarityand through an explicit dialogic focus on self \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Knowing Self, Changing Self, Morawetz (Univ. of Connecticut School of Law) and Enyart, a practicing psychologist, explore self at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. The result is a fascinating read that blends both historical viewpoints and practical applications. One of the main themes that runs throughout is how much of ”knowing self” is a matter of fact and how much a matter of interpretation. Rather than judge interpretation as somehow less valuable than fact, the authors suggest that self as interpretation is equally vital to understand. In the tradition of such works as Mayeroff’s On Caring (1971), this book demonstrates the power of understanding self through shared friendship and the ability to care for others as much as for self. It is refreshing to have a work that balances conversation on the role of trust and fear (many works discuss one or the other but rarely both) in navigating through the self-exploration process and coming to understand self. . . this thin but powerful volume is well suited to counseling and philosophy and of much value to helping professionals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSumming Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Knowing Self (by Thomas Morawetz)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On the Examined Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: On the Social Bases of Self-Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e“Who Am I?”\u003cbr\u003eIdentity and Recognition\u003cbr\u003eAttitudes\u003cbr\u003eTrust and Fear\u003cbr\u003eSelf-knowledge as Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eFantasy Selves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: On Truth and Falsity, Fantasy and Self-Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eWhat You See…\u003cbr\u003eAspects and Ingredients of the Self\u003cbr\u003eParameters of Self-image\u003cbr\u003eDiscontent and Quiet Desperation\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Fantasy\u003cbr\u003eDeeper into Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: On Acting, Roles, and Essences\u003cbr\u003eActing: Two Meanings\u003cbr\u003e“Real” Actors\u003cbr\u003eThe Audience\u003cbr\u003eDeeper into Identification\u003cbr\u003eRoles and Selves\u003cbr\u003eCosplay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: On Recognition\u003cbr\u003eThe Importance of Recognizability\u003cbr\u003eRecognizing Oneself\u003cbr\u003eAnonymity\u003cbr\u003eRecognition, Power, and Fear\u003cbr\u003eImpersonation and Deception\u003cbr\u003eThe Technology of Self-creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Changing Self (by Thomas Morawetz and Scotty Enyart)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: On Friendship\u003cbr\u003eOthers and Alter Egos (TM)\u003cbr\u003eBeginning Again (SE)\u003cbr\u003eContrast and Complement (TM)\u003cbr\u003eLearning and Giving (SE)\u003cbr\u003eVoices in the Wilderness (TM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: On Professional Identity\u003cbr\u003eRevising the Self (TM)\u003cbr\u003eTherapy: Inroads, Strengths, Deficits (SE)\u003cbr\u003eChange: Transparency and Opacity (TM)\u003cbr\u003eThe Therapist’s Role (SE)\u003cbr\u003eThe Self as Indirect Object (TM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: On Culture\u003cbr\u003eWhat is Culture? (TM)\u003cbr\u003eOrigins (SE)\u003cbr\u003eFrames, Contexts, and Cultures (TM)\u003cbr\u003eThe Deliberate Cultural Pursuit of Self-knowledge (SE)\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Personal Trajectories (TM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: On Feeling\u003cbr\u003eJudging and Feeling (TM)\u003cbr\u003eWays of Knowing and Feeling (SE)\u003cbr\u003eThe Self and Humanism (TM)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040820166999,"sku":"9781498575089","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498575089.jpg?v=1750947953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knowing-self-changing-self-9781498575089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}