ROM HARRÉ has been a longtime University Lecturer on the Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. He is also a Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and has been visiting professor at universities around the world. He has authored or co-authored nearly 60 books.

FATHALI MOGHADDAM is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He has also taught at McGill University and the National University of Iran, and has been a National Officer for a United Nations Development Program.

Introduction by Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam
The Self and Other Individuals
Motivational Styles and Positioning Theory by Michael J. Apter
Positioning and the Emotions by W. Gerrod Parrott
"There You Are Man": Men's Use of Emotion Discourses and Their Negotiation of Emotional Subject Positions by Chris Walton, Adrian Coyle, and Evanthia Lyons
The Unthinkable, the Unspeakable Self: Reflections on the Importance of Negative Emotional Boundaries for the Formation, Maintenance and Transformation of Identities by Ciarán Benson
Malignant Positioning and the Predicament of People with Alzheimer's Disease by Steven R. Sabat
Paranoia, Ambivalence, and Discursive Practices: Concepts of Position and Positioning in Psychoanalysis and Discursive Psychology by Margaret Wetherell
The Self and Groups
Positioning and Neighborhood Groups by Rom Harré and Nikki Slocum
Sustaining Intergroup Harmony: An Analysis of the Kissinger Papers through Positioning Theory by Fathali M. Moghaddam, Elizabeth Hanley, and Rom Harré
Categories as Actions: Positioning, Oppression, and Heteronormativity by Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzenger
Gender Positioning: A 16th/17th Century Example Jennifer Lynn Adams and Rom Harré
Positioning and Postcolonial Apologizing in Australia by Lucinda Aberdeen
Applying Positioning Principles to a Theory of Collective Identity by Donald M. Taylor, Evelyne Bougie, and Julie Caouette
The Self and Context
Integration Speaking: Introducing Positioning Theory in Regional Integration Studies by Nikki Slocum and Luk Van Langenhove
Culture-Clash and Patents: Positioning and Intellectual Property Rights by Fathali M. Moghaddam and Shayna Ginsburg
Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory by Lionel Boxer
Positioning the Subject in Body/Landscape Relations by Bronwyn Davies
Concluding Chapter by Tim May