Identity and Emotion: Development Through Self-Organization (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Identity and Emotion focuses on the individual development of identity and the processes involved. By working from a dynamic systems perspective the book offers a new and exciting approach to human identity and its development across the lifespan. The contributors to the book are specialists in this new approach, and offer new and challenging ideas on the development of identity as a self-organizing process. The book offers a wealth of new ideas and insights, but also concentrates on the ways these insights can be translated into research.

Harke A. Bosma is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Groningen where he lectures in adolescent psychology with responsibility for research and teaching in this area.

E. Saskia Kunnen is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Utrecht where she researches and lectures in the areas of personal development in adolescence and adulthood, and application of dynamic systems theory and models in this field.