Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application

Mosak, Harold H.

ISBN 10: 0415952875 / ISBN 13: 9780415952873

Published by Routledge, 2005

About this Item

We cannot recollect the past without skewing it by our current perceptions. Using a constructivist approach ans systematic development of early recollection theory, this book invites students to engage in problem solving rather than merely read for content. It offers practitioners a step-by-step approach to interpretation of early recollections. Num Pages: 364 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634. . 2005. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415952875
• ISBN 13: 9780415952873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Our present and our past are manifestly intertwined. Memories are not identical simulations of the past, but are stories shaped by our current perspectives of others, the world, and ourselves. As a result, the gathering of early recollections can be used as a projective technique that indicates our strengths, goals, lines of movement, fears, and a host of other relevant psychological data. Early Recollections are a quick, accurate, and cost-effective personality assessment demonstrated to have similar reliability and validity to other personality measures.

Both a comprehensive and accessible text, Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application presents a constructivist approach and systematic development of early recollection theory. Mosak and Di Pietro invite students to think and actively engage in problem solving rather than merely read for content. Supported by step-by-step examples, this book also offers a perspective suitable for application by Adlerian practitioners, non-Adlerian clinicians, and all other mental health professionals and students seeking a new framework for evaluating personality.

About the Author

Harold H. Mosak, Ph.D, ABPP is Distinguished Service Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, which he helped found in 1952. Roger Di Pietro, Psy.D. is currently in private practice and has recently authored the Decoding Persistent Depression series and Anger: Psychological Reasons Why It Rises and How to Reduce It.