Identity Structure Analysis – Societal & Clinical Contexts

1. Identity Structure Analysis – Societal & Clinical Contexts Symposium at the 2006 Northern Ireland BPS Annual Conference convened by Peter Weinreich, University of Ulster

2. 25th Anniversary of the First ISA Publication • Weinreich, P. (1980/86/88) Manual for Identity Exploration using Personal Constructs. Coventry: University of Warwick, Economic and Social Research Council, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (2nd ed.). • Weinreich, P. (1986) ‘The operationalisation of identity theory in racial and ethnic relations’, in J. Rex and D. Mason (Eds.) Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. 25th Anniversary of the First ISA Publication • Liebkind, K. (Ed.) (1989) New Identities in Europe: Immigrant Ancestry and the Ethnic Identity of Youth, Volume 3 of the European Science Foundation series: "Studies in European Migration". London: Gower. • Weinreich, P. and Saunderson, W. (Eds.) (2003) Analysing Identity: Clinical, Societal and Cross-Cultural Applications. London: Routledge & Psychology Press.

4. Presentations • Peter Weinreich, University of Ulster(UUJ) Analysing Identity: Cross-Cultural, Societal and Clinical Contexts • Richard Pearce, University of Bath Monitoring the Adjustment of Expatriate Students on Entering an International School • Wendy Saunderson, University of Ulster (UUC) Juggling or Struggling?: Lone Mothers, Identity and Work-life Balance

5. Presentations • Alison McKenna, University of Ulster (UUJ) Identity Structure Analyses of Individuals with Clinical Depression and Anxiety • Anne Malone, University of Ulster (UUJ) Identity Structure Analysis as an Approach to Personality Disorders

6. Presentations • Katrina Hoy, University of Ulster (UUJ) A Case-Study Approach to Explore Identity Processes and Structure in Individuals with Schizophrenia, using Identity Structure Analysis. • Cherie Part, University of Ulster (UUJ) Identity Processes associated with Aggressive Impulsivity in Paranoid Schizophrenia

7. Some definitions: aspirational identification(positive)

8. Some definitions: aspirational identification(negative)

9. Some definitions: empathetic identification(as based in context)

10. Some definitions: conflicted identification(as based in context)

11. Some definitions: overall identity diffusion (as based in context)

12. Some definitions: ego-involvement with another • One’s ego-involvement with another is defined as one’s overall responsiveness to the other in terms of the extensiveness both in quantity and strength of the attributes one construes the other as possessing.

13. Some definitions: evaluation of another • One’s evaluation of another is defined as one’s overall assessment of the other in terms of the positive and negative evaluative connotations of the attributes one construes in that other, in accordance with one’s value system.

14. Some definitions: structural pressure on a construct • The structural pressure on a person’s construct is defined as the overall strength of the excess of compatibilities over incompatibilities between the evaluative connotations of attributions one makes to each entity by way of the one construct and one’s overall evaluation of each entity.

15. Reference • Chapter 2 in Weinreich, P. and Saunderson, W. (Eds.) (2003) Analysing Identity: Clinical, Societal and Cross-Cultural Applications. London: Routledge & Psychology Press.