Encounters with the Self Author:Hamachek, Don E. This is a book about self-concept. It is about that very private icture each of us carries around which evolves out of who we think we are, what we think we can do, and how best we think we can do it. It is a book about how this phenomenon called the self grows, develps, changes, and expresses itself in behavior. — The theme of this book is und... more »erscored by a simple assumption, namely, the better we know ourselves the more able we will be to forget ourselves, for it is usually those things we do not know about ourselves, in terms of personal dynamics, that bog us down form time to time.« less