Multiple Cultures, Multiple Selves, and Analytic Influence: A Response to Goldin’s “The Storied Self”.

GOLDIN, Daniel; DYNAMICAL systems; PSYCHIC ability; MULTIPLE psychotherapy; IDENTITY (Psychology)

Using a dynamic systems contextual model, I expand Daniel Goldin’s ideas about narrative and the “storied self.” I identify two issues that are key to the development of a coherent life story: first, the identification and integration of the multiple psychic self-states and external cultures with which and in which people live, and second, the meeting and melding of important minds in the person’s environment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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