Self Studies: The Psychology of Self and Identity
"Scheibe provides an unusually thoughtful and broad-ranging integration of traditional social-scientific theories of the self with contemporary ideas from the humanities concerning constructed memories and creative self-narratives. He seeks to craft a psychology that reaches out to, and eventually does justice to, history and philosophy. Of equal value to scholars interested in the self and to ordinary individuals concerned with their own problems of self creation and self-control, Self Studies artfully summarizes decades of Scheibe's thinking and writing about the ever fascinating coexistence in human beings of biologically rooted psyche and socially constructed identity."-Phillip R. Shaver Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis