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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>In achieving self-esteem, or sense of self, we achieve maturity, or psychosocial growth<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877220084&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="50_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>The Sense of Self</h1>
<H2>A Guide to How We Mature</H2>
<h3>Lorene A. Stringer</h3>
<P>cloth 0-87722-008-5 $14.95, May 71, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT>
<BR> 170 pp
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This is a lovely book. The author is not only buoyant in her belief but she is rigorous in her intent to test those beliefs by recent research and practical observations."</I>
<br>—<B>Helen Harris Perlman</B><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"Mental health can be purposefully nurtured," writes Lorene A. Stringer. As mental illness arises from the inability to cope with life stresses, so mental health is a matter of managing stress effectively.</P>
<P>The ability to cope with stress can be nurtured by helping people, particularly the young, to develop self-esteem, defined by the author as "a reasonably accurate and realistic apraisal of the self resulting in the finding that self has worth." It is in achieving that self-esteem, or sense of self, that we achieve maturity, or psycosocial growth.</P>
<P>Miss Stringer describes the "sustaining network," which can foster growth from dependent childhood through to the extended relationships of adulthood. She shows how parents and teachers can help children learn, from stress itself, to develop the resources necessary to deal with stress. These resources — of competence, productivity, and responsibility — can be cultivated, as can the power of enjoyment, which the author sees as crucial in promoting growth and replenishing energy.</P>
<P><I>The Sense of Self</I> has been compared with Bruno Bettelheim's first books on residential treatment. And indeed, the author addresses herself largely to the fostering of mental health in children. But she makes it clear that psychosocial growth is possibile in adulthood, too, and that the capacity to enjoy can be expanded at any age.</P>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"Miss Stringer's definition of mental health is an original contribution, clearly explained and well developed. However, her prime substantive contribution is her unique explication of the place and function of enjoyment in personality development."</I>
<br>— <B>John C. Glidewell</B>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
Introduction<br>
1. The Conceptual Framework<br>
2. The Sustaining Network<br>
The Early Relationships<br>
The Extended Relationships<br>
Beyond Contract Terms<br>
3. About Mirrors, Images, and the Self<br>
The Images in the Parents' Eyes<br>
The Observer<br>
The Ego-Ideal<br>
Specifically-Me<br>
On Becoming a Good Parent to Oneself<br>
4. Proof of Worth<br>
Competence<br>
Productivity<br>
Responsibility<br>
A Note on Teachers and Teaching<br>
5. The Fourth Psychosocial resource<br>
About Enjoyment—in Interpersonal Relationsips<br>
About Enjoyment—in One's Self, by One's Self,
and for One's Self<br>
About Enjoyment—in Relation to One's Work
and One's World<br>
A Beginning of Further Exploration<br>
6. A Resource Is What You Have Before You Need It<br>
References<br>
Index<br>
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><B>Lorene A. Stringer</B> is Community Mental Health Coordinator of the St. Louis County Health Department.</P>
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