Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. He has been Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013-2018 and Professeur invitee at University of Luxembourg (2013-2019).  He has published and edited around 50 books, the most pertinent of which are his monographs The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),  Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Ornamented Lives (Charlotte NC: Information Age, 2019).  He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, as well as Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. 

Introduction: Psychology as general science of human being . Part 1. Phenomenology of the psyche and Semiotic foundations for human psychology Chapter 1. Constructing and Destroying One's Life: Phenomenology of the human life course Chapter 2 Signs in Minds: Semiotic basis for the New General Psychology Chapter 3 Mediating Mind: Making values Part 2. The Depth of Human Subjectivity Chapter 4. Silent screaming: Voices within the Self Chapter 5. Disquieting societies Part 3. Societal framing: Demand, direction and catalysis Chapter 6. Constructing loyalties: Dialogues between rights and duties Chapter 7. Masked morality: Theatrical reality of living Chapter 8. Monuments and memory: Imagination amplified and objectified Chapter 9. Political Sentiments: Escalation and resistance Part 4. Person in the mirror of oneself: Qualitative structures in dynamic transformations Chapter 10. Desires for Beauty: Aesthetics of human existence Chapter 11. From Wanting to Acting: Active desire for meaningful living Part V. Pathways of Cultural Personology Chapter 12. How to investigate complex personological processes? Chapter 13 Final Conclusions: General Structure of Cultural Personology