1. Identity - with or without you? Perspectives and choices guiding this handbook Meike Watzlawik, Carolin Demuth and Michael Bamberg; Part I. The origin and development of the concept of identity: 2. Decentering histories of identity Michael Bamberg and Martin Dege; 3. Challenges in research on self-identity Sue Widdicombe and Cristina Marinho; 4. The mystery of identity: fundamental questions, elusive answers Mark Freeman; Part II. New perspectives and challenges: 5. A moral perspective: Identity as self-interpretation Svend Brinkmann; 6. Researching identities as affective discursive practices Octavia Calder-Dawe and Maree Martinussen; 7. The negotiation of continuity and change of Mapuche women weavers in Chile and its implication for (non-eurocentric) identity research Ramiro Gonzalez Rial and Danilo Silva Guimarães; 8. Identity and voices - a language dialogical take Marie-Cécile Bertau; 9. Psychoanalytic perspectives on identity: From ego to life narrative Tilmann Habermas and Nina Kemper; 10. Erikson, the identity statuses and beyond Jane Kroger and James E. Marcia; Part III. Methodological approaches: 11. A narrative practice approach to identities: Small stories and positioning analysis in digital contexts Korna Giaxoglou and Alexandra Georgakopoulou; 12. Conversation analysis and ethnomethodology: Identity at stake in a kinship carers' support group Julie Wilkes and Susan A. Speer; 13. Foucauldian-informed discourse analysis Sarah Riley, Martine Robson and Adrienne Evans; 14. A methodology to examine identity: Multimodal (inter)action analysis Sigrid Norris and Tui Matelau-Doherty; 15. Autoethnography Keith Berry; 16. A sociocultural approach to identity through diary studies Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie; 17. Positioning microanalysis: A method for the study of dynamics in the dialogical self and identity Tania Zittoun and Alex Gillespie; 18. Synthesized or confused field? A Critical analysis of the state-of-the-art in identity status research methods Oana Negru-Subtirica and Theo Klimstra; 19. Criminals' narrative identity Donna Youngs, David Rowlands and David Cante; 20. Experimentation within the social identity approach: History, highlights, and hurdles Lucas B. Mazur; Part IV.Current domains: 21. Clinical psychology: Autistic identities Alessandra Fasulo; 22. Gerontopsychology: Dementia and identity Lars-Christer Hydén; 23. The study of identity in health psychology Abigail Locke and Jane Montague; 24. Identity scholarship in educational psychology: Towards a complex dynamic systems perspective Avi Kaplan, Hanoch Flum, Ishwar Bridgelal and Joanna K. Garner; 25. Political psychology: Identity development in a traumatic environment David Becker; 26. Organisational psychology: When, why and how is identity work (less) important in organisational life? Stefan Sveningsson, Susann Gjerde and Mats Alvesson; 27. Conceptualizing the multiple levels of identity and intersectionality Leoandra Onnie Rogers and Moin Syed; Part V. Conclusion: 28. Where is identity? Reflections on identity conceptualizations, dimensions, and implications Carolin Demuth and Meike Watzlawik.