Evolved Self: Mapping an Understanding of Who We Are (Health and Society) - Softcover

Robertson, Lloyd Hawkeye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0776629301 ISBN 13: 9780776629308

Verlag: University of Ottawa Press, 2020

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In this work the self, which is core to such concepts as self-esteem and self-actualization, is mapped using elemental units of culture called memes. To understand this self, we draw on western philosophy, major schools of psychology, and the cross-cultural experience of the self in both collectivist and individualist cultures. With this grounding a diverse sample of eleven selves representing three genders are mapped and analyzed grouped in the following clusters: 1) North American selves built through participation in sports, 2) selves centred on notions of North American aboriginality,3) selves of individuals following a secular humanist paradigm, and 4) selves from China and Russia. Two methods of self-mapping are described. The results support a hypothesis that a healthy or functional self is composed of fundamental elements including constancy, volition, uniqueness, productivity, intimacy, and social interest. The application of this research and the method of self-mapping to counselling and psychotherapy are explored. A disciplinary paradigm is proposed uniting major schools of psychotherapy. This work will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, social workers, sociologists and all who have wondered how they come to define themselves in the ways that they do.

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Dr. Robertson is Lead Psychologist, Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety at the University of Regina, and holds a Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology. He is has had a private clinical practice for the past forty years. He has published on the structure of the self, the use of prior learning assessment in self-construction, self-mapping in therapy, memetic mutations in religious transmission, residential school syndrome as a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, free will and psychotherapy, mind viruses, and male stigma. 

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• Verlag: University of Ottawa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0776629301
• ISBN 13: 9780776629308
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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