About this title: The concept of the self is the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis, and similarly in neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy. Modell, an American psychoanalyst, here studies selfhood from the inside by examining variations on the theme of the self in Freud, and in the work of object relations theorists, self psychologists, and neuroscientists. His contribution is an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. Modell contends that the self is fundamentally paradoxical, being both dependent and autonomous-dependent upon social affirmation, but ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780674707528ISBN:0674707524
Description: Previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise a Very Good clean tight copy in a slightly chipped Dust Jacket. Hardcover, 8vo. 250 pages, including Notes, References and Index. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harvard University Press., Cambridge, Mass.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780674707528ISBN:0674707524
Description: Very Good jacket. Octavo (8.5in x 5.75in) burgundy cloth with white titling to spine. [xii], 250pp. Name to endpaper, else a bright and clean copy in near Fine condition in a dustwrapper that is very lightly worn and is vg. The concept of self in psychoanalysis. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780674707528ISBN:0674707524
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Jacket is heavily edgeworn especially at the spine extremities, small tear rear panel of jacket, price sticker rear cover, some soiling and scuffing to the jacket, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674707535ISBN:0674707532
Description: New. In "The Private Self, " Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker in American psychoanalysis, Modell here studies selfhood by examining variations on the theme of the sel... read more
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