Self Studies: The Psychology of Self and Identity

In this far-ranging study, Scheibe seeks an understanding of the self and personal identity. In doing so, he focuses on the various relationships of the self in social environments. He examines the major historical perspectives on the self, the process or processes of socialization, memory, and identity, and the psychology of national identity. A well-written look at the essential considerations affecting the self in its development, ongoing and changing identity, and its relationships to others and to institutions, this study will be of interest to scholars and researchers in psychology and sociology as well as the general reader.

Table of Contents:
Preface Psyche and the Socius: Being and Being-in-Place Historical Perspectives on the Presented Self Socialization: The Formation of Identity The Transvaluation of Social Identity The Psychology of National Identity Memory, Identity, and History Fugitive Identity: Self-Control and the Spy Self-Narratives and Adventure Legitimized Aggression and the Assignment of Evil References Index

About the Author :
KARL E. SCHEIBE is Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University./e He has written extensively in the field.

Review :
"Drawing upon classic theories as well as everyday events, both the profound and the mundane. Scheibe shows how the self is about memory and forgetting, the local and the national, the pragmatic and the moral. Self Studies is an invaluable resource for any researcher studying the self and an enticing test for courses on self and identity."- Jill G. Morawski Professor of Psychology Wesleyan University "Scheibe provides an unusually thoughtful and broad-ranging integration of traditional social-scientific theories of the self with contemporary ideas from the humanities concerning constructed memories and creative self-narratives. He seeks to craft a psychology that reaches out to, and eventually does justice to, history and philosophy. Of equal value to scholars interested in the self and to ordinary individuals concerned with their own problems of self creation and self-control, Self Studies artfully summarizes decades of Scheibe's thinking and writing about the ever fascinating coexistence in human beings of biologically rooted psyche and socially constructed identity."-Phillip R. Shaver Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis "The nine luminous essays in this book show once again why Karl Scheibe is our most perceptive modern student of the self. Moving easily from Greek mythology to modern statistics, Scheibe's scholarship and prose style will delight and inform readers from every background as he clarifies what is and always has been constant in the epistemology of the soul."- Robert Hogan McFarlin Professor of Psychology The University of Tulsa