The self and others : positioning individuals and groups in personal, political, and cultural contexts / edited by Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The self and others in traditional psychology and in positioning theory / Rom Harré and Fathali Moghaddam -- Motivational styles and positioning theory / Michael J. Apter -- Positioning and the emotions / W. Gerrod Parrott -- "There you are man" : men's use of emotion discourses and their negotiation of emotional subject positions / Chris Walton, Adrian Coyle, and Evanthia Lyons -- The unthinkable boundaries of self : the role of negative emotional boundaries for the formation, maintenance, and transformation of identities / Ciarán Benson -- Malignant positioning and the predicament of people with Alzheimer's disease / Steven R. Sabat -- Paranoia, ambivalence, and discursive practices : concepts of position and positioning in psychoanalysis and discursive psychology / Margaret Wetherell -- Disputes as complex social events : on the uses of positioning theory / Rom Harré and Nikki Slocum -- Sustaining intergroup harmony : an analysis of the Kissinger papers through positioning theory / Fathali Moghaddam, Elizabeth Hanley, and Rom Harré -- Constructing identities : a feminist conversation analytic approach to positioning in action / Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger -- Gender positioning : a sixteenth/seventeenth-century example / Jennifer Lynn Adams and Rom Harré -- Positioning and postcolonial apologizing in Australia / Lucinda Aberdeen -- Applying positioning principles to a theory of collective identity / Donald M. Taylor, Evelyne Bougie, and Julie Caouette -- Integration speak : introducing positioning theory in regional integration studies / Nikki Slocum and Luk Van Langenhove -- Culture clash and patents : positioning and intellectual property rights / Fathali Moghaddam and Shayna Ginsburg -- Assessment of quality systems with positioning theory / Lionel Boxer -- Positioning the subject in body/landscape relations / Bronwyn Davies -- Reflexive vigilance : engagement, illumination, and development / Tim May.

"This volume focuses on relations between the self and other individuals, the self and groups, and the self and context. Leading scholars in the field of positioning theory present the newest developments from this field on human social relations. The discussion is international, multidisciplinary, and multi-method, aiming to achieve a more dynamic and powerful account of human social relations, and to break disciplinary boundaries. Four features in this work are prominent. The book is culturally oriented and international. There is a push to move across disciplines, particularly across psychology and linguistics, and psychology and microsociology. There is a focus on language and social construction of the world through discourse. Finally, the book represents a multi-method approach that reflects discursive methods."--Publisher's website.