Narrative Identities

Thirteen psychologists from various schools of thought examine their professional identities in the context of their personal biographies. Address questions about identity in relation to personality development, language, and socialization. Demonstrate how their cultural and historical context influenced their theoretical approaches to the 'self.' For psychologists.

PREFACE

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George Yancy, Duquesne Universiy and Susan Hadley, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania

1 The Poetics of My Identities

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Theodore R. Sarbin, University of California, Santa Cruz

2 Lessons from Relics about Self and Identity

36

(18)

Karl E. Scheibe, Wesleyan University, Connecticut

3 Objects, Meanings, and Connections in My Life and Career

54

(19)

David E. Leary, University of Richmond, Virginia

4 From Poppies to Ferns: The Discursive Production of a Life

73

(23)

Gerald Monk, San Diego State University, California

5 Performing a Life (Story)

96

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Lois Holzman, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychothreapy, New York

6 A Psychologist without a Country, or Living Two Lives in the Same Story

114

(17)

Dan P. McAdams, Northwestern University Illinois

7 Life as a Symphony

131

(19)

Christopher M. Aanstoos, University of West Georgia

8 Moving On By Backing Away

150

(22)

John Shotter, University of New Hampshire

9 Living with Authority in "The Between"

172

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Hendrika Vande Kemp, private psychotherapy practice, Annandale, Virginia

10 The Personal/Psychological and the Pursuit of a Profession

191

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Adelbert H. Jenkins, New York University

11 On Growing Up as a "Premodernist"

208

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Steen Hailing, Seattle University, Washington

12 Life Reflections of a Nomadic Subject

228

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Tod Sloan, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon

13 Autobiography

245

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Ilene A. Serlin, Union Street Health Associates, Inc., San Francisco, California

THE CONTRIBUTORS

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SUBJECT INDEX

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AUTHOR INDEX

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