Self–Alteration – How People Change Themselves across Cultures Baldacchino

Self-AlterationHow People Change Themselves Across Cultures\nAuthor(s): Jean-Paul Baldacchino, Christopher Houston, Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978837232, 978-1978837232\nSynopsis\nMany of us feel a pressing desire to be different-to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we arein those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a practical care-canIchange, and how?Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Culturesexplores and analyzes these apparently universal hopes and their related existe.