Symposium Sessions

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Dialogues with the remembered past : early memories and present concerns
Organizer: John Barresi
Participants:
David Rioux Early memories and present concerns: A test of three alternative hypotheses of their relationship
Larisa Hausmanis: Early memories and present concerns: A two-year follow-up study
John Barresi: Early memories and present concerns: An idiographic analysis
Discussant: Dan McAdams
Development as dialogue between person and culture
Organizer: Ingrid Josephs
Participants:
Haci Uslucan Charles Sanders Peirce and the semiotic foundation of the self
Urs Fuhrer: Cultivating meanings as action possibilities for the self
Sunil Bhatia: Transcending universal models of ‘acculturation' in human development: Dialogical voices in diasporic cultures
Ingrid Josephs: Dialogicality from a developmental perspective: Co-construction, transformation, and integration of the ‘voices of the mind'
Discussant: Jaan Valsiner
Self-investigation and the experience of crisis
Organizer: Piotr Oles
Participants:
Henryk Gasiul Self as a Value Area and Motives in Search of Relation between Affect and Motive Dispositions
Piotr Oles &  M. Puchalska-Wasyl: Possible Selves during Midlife Transition
Wieslaw Blaszczak: Crisis and reevaluation of Life Threatening Situations
Jakub Kolodziej: Hopelessness and Helplessness as Unfulfilled Basic Motives
Career development: Dysfunctions and interventions
Organizer: Richard Van de Loo
Participants:
R. van de Loo & Tom Luken Theoretical framework for diagnosing and helping in career counseling
Joppe Proot & Rupert Spijkerman: Two case studies of the self confrontation method in career counseling
Developmental perspectives on the dialogical self
Organizer: Alan Fogel
Participants:
Philippe Rochat: Self-imitation in infancy
Alan Fogel: Body, Self, and Other: The Development of the Ecological Self in the First Year of Life
Marc D. Lewis: The contribution of new dialogical forms to self development in middle childhood
Saskia Kunnen: A developmental perspective on the dialogical self in adolescence
Developing conversations: the emergence and consolidation of dialogical paths
Organizers: Michel Ferrari and Marc D. Lewis
Participants:
Alan Fogel: Emotion Dialogues between Mothers and Pre-Verbal Infants
Michel Ferrari: Developing historical conversations
Marc D. Lewis: Internal monologues and the anticipation of the other: Developing self-constraint in a unitary brain
Michael Mascolo: Development of Self-Representations through Coregulated Dialogue: An Intersystemic Activity Approach