Multiple Cultures, Multiple Selves, and Analytic Influence: A Response to Goldin’s “The Storied Self”

Abstract

Using a dynamic systems contextual model, I expand Daniel Goldin’s ideas about narrative and the “storied self.” I identify two issues that are key to the development of a coherent life story: first, the identification and integration of the multiple psychic self-states and external cultures with which and in which people live, and second, the meeting and melding of important minds in the person’s environment.

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Joye Weisel-Barth

Joye Weisel-Barth, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a senior instructor, training analyst, and supervisor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She teaches courses in Basic Analytic Concepts, Freud, Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Attachment Theory, and Varieties of Relational Psychoanalysis and is Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a Council Member of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Her analytic practice is in Encino, California.