This text provides an account of how people's subjective sense of national identity develops through childhood and adolescence. Conceptual analysis of the various psychological components of the sense of national identity is complemented by a review of the research literature in…
Through clinical illustrations and theoretical considerations, 'Difficult Identities' discusses the centrality of transference in helping young patients overcome the difficulties in constructing their identity. At the beginning of our lives, we receive a potential inheritance in…
Every human being about to be born is loaned a provisional identity. This identity is embodied in the name they are given, as an invention, internal need, or generational obligation, parental fantasy or delusion. Both the person receiving and the person bestowing the name--and, …
"How do we understand, imagine and remember childhood? In what ways do cultural representations and scientific discourses meet in their ways of portraying children?Childhood, Literature and Science aims to answer these questions by tracing how images of childhood(s) and children…
Children in Culture Revisited follows on from the 1998 first volume, Children in Culture, to offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity. The ch…
This book considers theoretical issues and questions in relation to seeing childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity across a very wide range of disciplines.
