Running head: SELFHOOD AND IDENTITY Selfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: Contrasts With the West

Beyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Culture and Identity in a Glocal Society

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...

The Construction Of Identity And ‘Selfhood’: Glimpses Of The Relevance Of These Psychodynamics To Work Organisations Stream 1 — Identity: Constructed, Consumed And Politicised

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

Selfhood in younger onset dementia: transitions and testimonies.

Younger people with dementia and their carers are an overlooked population for research, policy and practice attention. In this study, data were collected from both the United States and the UK in order to explore the meaning and construction of selfhood and identity. The US data collection included in-depth interviews with 23 people diagnosed with younger-onset dementia, while the UK data coll...

Sense of identity in advanced Alzheimer's dementia: a cognitive dissociation between sameness and selfhood?

We looked at whether sense of identity persists in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and if its profile remains the same between two examinations. A specifically designed protocol was administered to 16 AD patients in the mild to severe stages of dementia and to 16 matched healthy controls, both living in the same institution. We showed that sense of identity was broadly preserved in AD pa...