Self-identity

Harwood CS, RE Parales (1996) The P-ketoadipate pathway and the biology of self-identity. Annu Rev Microbiol 50 553-590. 

At the very least that medication is deemed necessary confirms having a condition that is highly stigmatized in many societies, and perhaps more in non-Western (Ng, 1997), and may lead patients to question their self-identity and capabilities in their personal and social roles (Carder, Vuckovic Green, 2003). Insight into the nature of psychiatric illness in turn affects patients attitude to medications (David, 1990) and compliance (Ziguras, Klimidis, Lambert etal, 2001). 

The basic tenet is that you manage that from which you are detached you are managed by that with which you are attached or identified. You must remember that you are neither your thoughts, nor your beliefs nor your feelings or behaviour you are the manager of all these. However, if you identify with them you will find It almost impossible to ter them any effort to do so would Imply attacking your self-identity. (p. 100)... 

The point is simple if you wish to let go of a belief or feeling, stand outside it. Distance yourself from it. The difficulty is that all too often we allow our ego to be bound up with what we believe or feel. We feel it is right to have these feelings or beliefs having them and expressing them is part of our self-identity. This identification can often be of great value it is what drives people to pursue altruistic causes. But it can also drive them to feed their ego. 

Mascuch, Michael, Origins of the Individualist Self Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, rypr-j/yj(Cambridge, 1997). 

As mentioned on p. 1854, an important function of proteasomes is formation of short antigenic peptides for use by the immune system.664 Inhibition of proteasome activity reduces or prevents antigen presentation (Chapter 31).665 666 In this immune surveillance system mature proteins of host cells are cut up and checked for self-identity. The checking also includes the rapidly degraded imperfect proteins and foreign proteins from invading organisms or viruses.667 6673... 

It is common for patients initially to experience a change in self-identity. Our culture values the rugged individual who can pull himself up by his bootstraps. Patients may worry that it is a sign of weakness or disability to try medication for an invisible problem. Other patients may express concerns about the cost of medication and wonder how they can afford to pay for it. 

Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford, CA Stanford University Press. 

Self-identity is completely lost, and the self and that which is outside the self fuse. The ordinary subject-object relationships disappear, along with the conventional separateness of the external object. The extension of this egolessness can culminate in xmion or communication with the divine, Sidney Cohen, MD (1964). 

This two-way effect is labeled mutually constitutive by constructivists. See Emmanuel Adler, Seizing the Middle Ground Constructivism in World Politics, European Journal of International Relations 3(3) (1997), pp. 319-63. However, I would not go so far here as some constructivists who argue that domestic ideology or self-identity drive changing perceptions of national interest. See the articles in Katzenstein, ed., Culture of National Security. 

This attitude reveals the essence of the creative conflict paradox. Organic fanning is in actuality a critique of conventional practices and yet the converted fanners continued to feel strong bonds with those fanners who continued with the criticized conventional practices. Thus, the paradox becomes an internalized component of their self-identity. However, such internalized conflict may be particular to the 1995-converters. 

Terry Eagleton, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture (London Verso 1995). If Irish can be effectively rendered into English, then it cannot be entirely self-identical but must always have been intrinsically capable of this difference in itself. And if English can translate Irish, then this alien medium must be in some sense inherent in the Irish language itself (268). 

Hustvedt, G., Dickson, M.A., 2009. Consumer likelihood of purchasing organic cotton apparel influences of attitudes and self identity. J. Fash. Mark. Manag. 13,49-65. 

For a myriad of intellectual reasons Blackwelder disagreed with principles underlying evolntionary taxonomy. He certainly was not alone. However, for some reason — no doubt complex reasons — he chose to represent this disagreement such that he needed to reject their project absolntely. Blackwelder created a self-identity based on this opposition and constructed his relation to evolutionary taxonomy in terms of bitter conflict and rivalry. This construction was more than rhetorical. It was personal. ... 

As to the I m OK you re OK course, I still recall the first day when about 15 to 20 students were asked to sit in a circle, introduce, and identify themselves. Each person gave their name, year, and major. That is until the young woman next to me announced her name and her identification as a lesbian. Needless to say, that was a tough act to follow. So I did as the others had done. On reflection, I realized that the young woman had answered the question of self identity far more deeply and honestly than the rest of us. I realized that the Who We Are question takes a great deal of self exploration and discovery that only life in combination with guidance and experience can be answered. For me the honest answer was to be found in rabbinic studies. What we choose to do is NOT who we are, but who we are will dramatically impact what we decide to do, and HOW we do what we do, and the moral and ethical choices we make as individuals, families, communities, and nations. 

The linear career typically involves a progression of steps, or promotions, within the formal hierarchy of an organization. Climbing the corporate ladder would describe the ideal linear career. An expert career, on the other hand, usually involves a long-term commitment to an engineer s chosen field or specialty, with the work often becoming an important component of self-identity. The department or division guru is a status (even if informal) that experts often aspire to attain. 

Nature of work performed tends to be an integral component of self-identity. 

A. Giddens (1991) Modernity and Self Identity Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Cambridge Polity Press). 

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