00853nam a22001337a 4500020003900000082002100039100001700060245008700077260004300164300002100207520042100228650004400649650002600693  a9781442259782 (cloth : alk. paper)00a929.40019bHIM-P1 aHimes, Mavis14aThe power of names :buncovering the mystery of what we are called /cMavis Himes.  aLondon:bRowman and Littlefield,c2016  axii, 225 pages.   aIn The Power of Names, Mavis Himes explores both the profound ambivalence that many of us feel toward our names and the conscious and unconscious impact our names have on our lives, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill. She explores such questions as: What do our names mean? How do they influence our destiny? What does it mean to lose or change our name - and what does this reveal or conceal about who we are? 0aNames, PersonalxPsychological aspects. 0aIdentity (Psychology)