A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life: Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing

In a guide created from the experimental Composing Your Life class they co-taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, freelance photographer Ramsey and psychologist Sweet draw on diverse concepts of identity and sources of inspiration for self- expression. The book features interactive exercises (e.g., drawing my life, exploring gender stereotypes); examples of textual and visual student projects; a class syllabus; guide for instructors/ facilitators; and further reading. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Graham Gordon Ramsay is a professional freelance commercial and fine art photographer and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His fine art images have appeared in galleries and private collections throughout the US and Europe, and his commercial images have appeared in publications such as Time Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Figaro Magazine. Holly Barlow Sweet Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and a lecturer at MIT. She maintains a private practice in the Boston area and has given numerous talks and workshops at both local and national levels on self-esteem enhancement, creativity and self-exploration, and gender roles and relationships. She is Co-Director of the Cambridge Center for Gender Relations and, in 2005, received the "Practitioner of the Year" award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, a division of the American Psychological Association.