Abstract
The coherency of group analysis is both internal and external. Formation of individuated selves is fundamentally a social-historical process (Elias, 1978) affected by caregiver interactions, constituted through language (Bakhtin, 1981: Vygotsky, ref: Wertsch, 1991). Contemporary evolutionary psychology integrates biological and social processes.
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