The Conceptual Self in Context
Culture Experience Self Understanding

Table of Contents

List of contributions
Part I. The Self in Culture:
1. Concepts and self-concepts Ulric Neisser
2. Selfways: diversity in modes of cultural participation Hazel Rose Markus, Patricia R. Mullally, and Shinobu Kitayama
3. Depression and the cultural context of the self-serving bias Linda J. Koenig
4. How is the self conceptualized? Variations among cultures Fredrik Barth
5. The internal structure of the self George Lakoff
6. Why Lakoff needs psychoanalysis: on cultural ambivalence and concepts of the self Charles W. Nuckolls
7. Children's self-awareness and self-understanding in cultural context Daniel Hart and Suzanne Fegley
8. Situating the self in interpersonal space John F. Kihlstrom, Lori A. Marchese-Foster, and Stanley B. Klein
9. The self as socially constructed: a commentary Robyn Fivush and Janine Buckner
Part II. Experiencing the Self:
10. Mindfulness mediation and the private (?) self Eleanor Rosch
11. The consciousness machine: self and subjectivity in schizophrenia and modern culture Louis A. Sass
Part III. Philosophical Perspectives on the Self:
12. The self and contemporary theories of ethics Sheila Mason
13. A 'self of selves'? David A. Jopling
Author index
Subject index.

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