{"product_id":"identity-management-a-unifying-theory-of-human-behavior-9798243348140","title":"Identity Management: A Unifying Theory of Human Behavior","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Erik Gray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Behaviorism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychology has produced vast knowledge about human behavior-yet its theories rarely converge, its insights often fail to endure, and its most effective interventions collapse outside protected contexts. \u003ci\u003eIdentity Management\u003c\/i\u003e names the missing variable behind these patterns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than treating identity as a trait, narrative, or pathology, this book defines it as a continuous regulatory process-one that consumes cognitive, emotional, and attentional resources in order to maintain coherence, legibility, and continuity across contexts. When the cost of this process-\u003ci\u003eidentity load\u003c\/i\u003e-remains low, learning, flexibility, and integration are possible. When it becomes saturated, preservation dominates, and even the most well-established psychological mechanisms predictably fail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on convergent insights from clinical psychology, learning theory, systems science, social psychology, and developmental research, \u003ci\u003eIdentity Management\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unifying framework for understanding why change stabilizes when it does-and why it so often does not. Without moralizing distress or promising cure, the book reframes resistance, relapse, burnout, addiction, and anxiety as structurally intelligible responses to sustained identity demand rather than as individual deficits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a new therapy model or an optimization program. It is a structural account of human behavior-one that explains the limits of intervention, the conditions of change, and the cost of being someone continuously in a world that increasingly requires it.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595019894935,"sku":"9798243348140","price":2099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798243348140.webp?v=1774988077","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/identity-management-a-unifying-theory-of-human-behavior-9798243348140","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}