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Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought

The Self and Socialization of Human Concerns

George A De Vos author Eric S De Vos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:12th Mar '04

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Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought represents a major contribution, describing an empirically-validated method for analyzing the thematic content of narratives as a tool for comparative research in Anthropology, Cultural Psychology and Ethnopsychiatry. This first volume in the two volume series presents the Interpersonal Concerns Scoring System (ICSS), which is a comprehensive system of dimensions and categories for classifying thematic content found in narratives. The ICSS categories are discussed from both developmental-psychological and psychocultural perspectives. This is designed to facilitate the cross-cultural researcher or clinician's understanding of how normative or non-normative patterns of thematic concerns might be inferentially related to socialization processes (whether adaptive or pathogenic) that are found in particular sociocultural settings.

George DeVos is the premier anthropological expert on projective testing. This two volume study, which includes his new coding system for scoring the TAT, is indispensable for any anthropologist or psychologist interested in the relevance of the TAT for understanding the interaction between personality dynamics and social and cultural systems. -- Melford E. Spiro, UC-San Diego

ISBN: 9780742500020

Dimensions: 235mm x 165mm x 37mm

Weight: 857g

576 pages