Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 2 Can We Conceive of Ourselves? Three Instances of Theoretical Conversion 10
6. CHAPTER 3 A Brief History of Conceptions of the Person 27
7. CHAPTER 4 Monistic Thinking and Modal Constructs 37
8. CHAPTER 5 Constitution-Bound: The Neurobiological Basis of Personality 52
9. CHAPTER 6 Ethnocentrism: Culture, Local Knowledge, and Universal Truth 62
10. CHAPTER 7 Psychoanalysis as an Indigenous Psychology 76
11. CHAPTER 8 Indigenous Psychologies of the East and West: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism 91
12. CHAPTER 9 Gender, Personality, and Culture 100
13. CHAPTER 10 Psychoanalytic Monism and Intracultural Diversity 115
14. CHAPTER 11 How Models Become Movements: The Ideological Dimension 133
15. CHAPTER 12 Summary of the Monism-Pluralism Debate 140
16. CHAPTER 13 Systems in Transformation: A Model for the Dialectic between Discovery and Creation 145
17. CHAPTER 14 Modeling the Dialectic between Discovery and Creation 154
18. CHAPTER 15 Conceiving of Personality: The Warp and the Woof 169
19. References 175
20. Index 197