Beyond Individualism : Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience (Hardcover)

I. The Problem of Self: In Search of a New Paradigm1. The Legacy of Individualism - The Paradigm in Practice2. Constructing a New ModelII. The Self in the Social Field: Relationship and Contact3. The Self in Relation - Orienting and Contacting in the Social Field4. The Self in Contact Integration and Process in the Living FieldIII. Support, Shame, and Intimacy: The Self in Development5. Support and Development - The Self in the Field6. Shame and Inhibition - The Self in the Broken Field7. The Restoration of Self - Intimacy, Intersubjectivity, and DialogueIV. The Integrated Self: Narrative, Culture, and Health8. Self as Story - Narrative, Culture, and GenderConclusion: Ethics, Ecology, and Spirit - The Healthy Self