Description
Book Synopsis* What is the self and its relationship to personality theories?
* How do the central schools of psychotherapy conceptualize the self?
The self is a notoriously difficult and at times obscure concept that underpins and guides much psychotherapy theory and practice. The corollary concept of personality is fundamentally linked to the concept of the self and has provided theorists and researchers in psychology with a more coherent set of principles with which to explicate the personal and attributional aspects of the self. The authors come from two quite separate schools of depth psychology (psychoanalytic and Adlerian) and provide an overview of the self and how it is conceptualized across the psychotherapies within various theories of personality. In addition to outlining some of the philosophical and historical issues surrounding the notion of selfhood, the authors examine classical and developmental models of psychoanalytic thought that implicitly point to the idea of self.
Table of ContentsSeries editor's preface
Preface
The self and personality in context
Psychoanalytic perspectives on the self
'classical' models
Psychoanalytic perspectives on the self
'developmental' models
Psychoanalytical perspectives on the self
late 20th century theory and technique
The social and interpersonal self in Adlerian and neo-Freudian theory
Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives on the psychodynamic self
Cognitive perspectives on the self
Humanistic, existential and transpersonal perspectives on the self
References
Index.
