The Guided Mind: A Sociogenetic Approach to Personality

by Jaan Valsiner

How is something as broad and complex as a personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of personality? In this ambitious book, Jaan Valsiner argues for a theoretical integration of two long-standing approaches: the individualistic tradition of personalistic psychology, typified by the work of William Stern and Gordon Allport, and the semiotic tradition of cultural-historical psychology, typified by the work of L. S. Vygotsky. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067436757X
• ISBN13: 9780674367579
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"