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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Representations of the self in the near and distant future.

29 Sep 2008 Seven studies provide evidence that representations of the self at a distant-future time point are more abstract and structured than are representations of the self at a near-future time point and that distant-future behaviors are more strongly ... Read more...

The narrative challenge to cognitive behavioral treatment of sexual offenders.

30 Aug 2008 Imprisoned sexual offenders undergoing treatment are expected to deduce and follow a treatment schema constructed on the foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). A key element of their treatment program is the presentation of a core ... Read more...

The transfigured body and the ethical turn in Australian illness memoir.

30 Aug 2008 Within the fields of social medicine and the medical humanities, chronic illness is acknowledged not just as an individually but as a socially transformative experience. The proliferation of published 'illness narratives' in recent years attests to ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Autobiography'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Why I joined the research laboratory of Prof. D. Carleton Gajdusek in 1968. 25 Nov 2008
• Qing Zhong: scoring a slam dunk on the autophagy court. 18 Oct 2008
• Representations of the self in the near and distant future. 29 Sep 2008
• Finding a niche. 29 Sep 2008
• The narrative challenge to cognitive behavioral treatment of sexual offenders. 30 Aug 2008
• Of mice and children: Reminiscences of a teratogeneticist. 30 Aug 2008
• The transfigured body and the ethical turn in Australian illness memoir. 30 Aug 2008
• An interview with David Baltimore by Errol C. Friedberg. 30 Aug 2008
• Development of the cardiac troponin T immunoassay. 30 Aug 2008
• Eran Meshorer: getting a chromatin perspective. [Interview by Caitlin Sedwick]. 23 Aug 2008
• Ari Helenius: Viruses under surveillance. Interview by Ruth Williams. 9 Aug 2008
• Early days of structural biology. 30 Jul 2008
• Platelets--from haemostasis to inflammation. 30 Jul 2008
• Amy Kiger: Abuzz on cell biology. Interview by Caitlin Sedwick. 12 Jul 2008
• Jane Skok: choreography of allelic exclusion. [Interview by Hema Bashyam]. 5 Jul 2008
• The short and long of it: neural correlates of temporal-order memory for autobiographical events. 29 Jun 2008
• How I became a biochemist. 29 Jun 2008
• Autobiography as a tool for self-construction: a study of patients with mental disorders. 29 Jun 2008
• Involuntary autobiographical memories in and outside the laboratory: how different are they from voluntary autobiographical memories? 29 Jun 2008
• A biographical approach. 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Autobiography'

Definition: The life of a person written by himself or herself. (Harrod's Librarians' Glossary, 7th ed)

Descriptor UI: D001325

Alternative terms: Autobiography; Autobiographies;

Tree Number: K01.517.211.215;

Technical Notes: IM as literary form only; NIM for specific biographee; no qualif; Manual 32.11, 32.18.7; includes memoirs; DF: AUTOBIOG or AUTOBIOGR