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Name: The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy. Neisser<|
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Remembering SelfConstruction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative\nAuthor(s): Ulric Neisser, Robyn Fivush\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521087919, 978-0521087919\nSynopsis\nThis book brings a surprisingly wide range of intellectual disciplines to bear on the self-narrative and the self. The same ecological/cognitive approach that successfully organized Ulric Neisser's earlier volume on The Perceived Self now relates ideas from the experimental, developmental, and clinical study of memory to insights from post-modernism and literature. Although autobiographical remembering is an essential way of giving meaning to our lives, the memories we construct are never fully consistent and often simply wrong. In the first chapter, Neisser considers the so-called 'false memory syndrome' in this context; other contributors discuss the effects of amnesia, the development of remembering in childhood, th.