Introduction: new insights into the development of self

✍ Scribed by Mark Bennett

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-7227
• DOI: 10.1002/icd.275

✦ Synopsis

The structures and processes associated with the self would seem to be as fundamental to psychological inquiry as it is possible to imagine. In view of this, and the significant early statements of Baldwin (1895), James (1890), Cooley (1902) and on the nature and origins of the self, it is perhaps surprising that the topic has not occupied developmental psychology's centre stage. Certainly, much important work has been undertaken over the last one hundred years, but as a focus of inquiry the self has not enjoyed the enduring prominence of, for example, cognitive development, nor at any point, the meteoric ascendancy of 'theory of mind'. Nonetheless, there are signs that it is becoming an increasingly significant focus of attention within developmental psychology-as reflected in major symposia at international conferences (e.g.