Main description:

This book aims to provide a unique perspective and definition of the self in psychological literature, filling the gap between psychological science and practical implementation of interventions presented to psychotherapy clients. Combining insights from a broad range of interdisciplinary literature and multiple perspectives on the self and identity, the author seeks to determine whether an independent reality exists behind the term 'self' and what the nature of that reality might be.

Among the topics discussed:

Varieties of narrative self within a psychological frame
First-personal experience and identity
Ethics, responsibility, and the other
Semiotics and subjectivity

Constituting Selves: Psychology's Pragmatic Horizon will be of interest to clinicians and psychologists seeking to challenge preexisting conceptualizations and definitions of the self in current psychological literature.

Contents:

Introduction.- First Study: Circumscribing the Self Aporetic.- Second Study: Varieties of Narrative Self within a Psychological Frame.- Third Study: Identities of a Person.- Fourth Study: First-Personal Experience and Identity.- Fifth Study: Quining the First-Personal Perspective.- Sixth Study: Dimensions of Mineness.- Seventh Study: Inquiry of Subjectivity.- Eighth Study: Second-Person WE.- Ninth Study: Ethics, Responsibility, and the Other.- Tenth Study: Semiotics and Subjectivity.- Eleventh Study: Assessing the Self-Aporetic-Framing a Pragmatic Psychology.