Abstract
Definition is a social undertaking. As a community we negotiate the meaning of words. This makes ‘self’ a peculiarly difficult term to define, since much of the meaning we attach to it derives from essentially private experiences of a kind which are difficult to communicate about and agree upon. Nevertheless, we can try to abstract from our private experience of self qualities which can constitute a working definition. Such an attempt was made by Bannister and Fransella (1980) in the following terms.
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Bannister, D. (1986). Knowledge of self. In: Psychology for Social Workers. Psychology for Professional Groups. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18151-3_9
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