{"product_id":"the-remembered-self-emotion-and-memory-in-personality","title":"The Remembered Self: Emotion and Memory in Personality","description":"In The Remembered Self Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into ones life story  revealing characteristic moods  motives  and thinking patterns. Through experimental evidence  clinical case material  and examples from literature  the authors offer a fresh perspective on the role of memory in personality and clinical psychology. They demonstrate how certain repetitive memories help shape our emotional responses to present situations. These same memories are in turn \"re-remembered\" and \"mis-remembered\" through the lens of our most passionate goals. Singer and Salovey discuss the specific role of moods influence on what and how we remember  and they explain how a persons \"self-defining\" memories may serve as archetypes of the personalitys most central themes. The authors also show how identifying and understanding key narrative memories can lead to more effective psychotherapy. Finally  the authors propose that a renewed emphasis on conscious thought and narrative memory may provide an integrative bridge among personality  social  clinical  and cognitive psychologists. Such an approach  the authors argue  could reduce the tension between heavily quantitative psychologists and qualitatively oriented phenomenologists  leading to a more inclusive and complex vision of the whole person. Organized in four parts  the book begins by introducing a new theoretical perspective on memory content and organization in personality and goes on to present research evidence in support of this theory. The second part illustrates how memory content can be influenced by mood states  attentional processes  and biases of the self. The third part of the book links the previous theoretical and experimental work to the practice of psychotherapy. Finally  the last chapter attempts to locate the philosophy and methods advocated in the book into a larger debate occurring at present in psychology. Unlike the conventional psychoanalytic approach to memory which concentrates on what is forgotten  Singer and Salovey treat memory in a new and different way with an emphasis on what is remembered. Theirs is a bold new theory of memory and self that is both comprehensive and accessible.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44662047440949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0029015812","price":53.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0029015812_27a30fe4-92a4-4ca7-bb11-05095e5779f0.jpg?v=1768027553","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-remembered-self-emotion-and-memory-in-personality","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}