The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

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University of Chicago Press, 1999 - 262 sider
"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self
 

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THE CHANGING PSYCHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
HISTORY AND THE SELF
11
AMERICA THE PROTEAN NATION
30
ODD COMBINATIONS
48
SOURCES OF FLUX AND FORM
72
POISE AND EQUIPOISE
91
ENDURING CONNECTIONS
118
LIFE STORIES
134
THE FUNDAMENTALIST SELF
158
THE DARK SIDE
186
THE PROTEAN PATH
209
NOTES
229
INDEX
252
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A distinguished professor of psychology & psychiatry at John Jay College & the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Robert Jay Lifton is the author of many important works, including "The Nazis Doctors," winner of the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, & "Death in Life," winner of a National Book Award.

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