forthcoming.. Self-Agency
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We are perceivers, we are thinkers, and we are also agents, bringing about physical events, such as bodily movements and their consequences. What we do tells us, and others, a lot about who we are. On the one hand, who we are determines what we do. On the other hand, acting is also a process of self-discovery and self-shaping. Pivotal to this mutual shaping of self and agency is the sense of agency, or agentive self-awareness, i.e., the sense that one is the agent of an action.
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Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one Hanna Pickard Forthcoming in H. Widdows and H. Marway, eds. Women and Violence: the Agency of Victims and Perpetrators
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