Self-Psychological Analysis

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The discipline of psychology is primarily concerned with understanding human
action and experience for the purpose of bettering the lives of persons both individually and collectively. However, for the most part, psychologists have given little
attention to the question of what a person is. Rather, in the attempt to achieve the
precision and control of the natural sciences, much mainstream psychology, perhaps somewhat unreflectively, has adopted a materialist perspective that considers
all psychological phenomena to be reducible to underlying biological and neurophysical substrates and/or computational and psychometric models. The challenge
to this view in recent years launched by social constructionist thinkers (e.g., Gergen,
1985; Shotter, 1993), who reject the notion of fixed, essential selves in favor of an
interpretive self that derives meaning from the sociocultural and historical traditions
and practices in which it is embedded, overcomes many of the difficulties associated
with

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