Understanding the self / edited by Richard Stevens.

London : SAGE in association with the Open University, 2004.

viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: making sense of the person in a social world / Richard Stevens -- The embodied self: a biological perspective / Frederick Toates -- The interpreting self: an experimentalist perspective / Mansur Lalljee / The reflexive self: an experiential perspective / Richard Stevens -- The distributed self: a social constructionist perspective / Margaret Wetherell and Janet Maybin -- The defensive self: a psychodynamic perspective / Kerry Thomas -- The self in the modern world: drawing together the threads / Richard Stevens and Margaret Wetherell.