Ebook: Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture: A Postmodern Synthesis
Author: Gerald Young (auth.)
- Tags: Psychology general, Personality and Social Psychology
- Series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging
- Year: 1997
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This volume proposes a theoretical integration of several major streams in contemporary psychological theory about adult development and therapy. It adopts the perspective that there are steps in development throughout the adult period, and that they are characterized by a union of the cognitive and affective, the self and the other, and idea with idea (in second-order collective abstractions). That is, they are at once postformal in terms of Piaget's theory, sociocultural in terms ofVygotsky's theory, and postmodern with the latter perspective providing an integrating theme. The affirmative, multivoiced, contextual, relational, other-sensitive side ofpostmodernism is emphasized. Levinas's philosophy of responsibility for the other is seen as congruent with this ethos. The neopiagetian model of development on which the current ap proach is based proposes that the last stage in development concerns collective intelligence, or postmodern, postformal thought. Kegan (1994) has attempted independently to describe adult development from the same perspective. His work on the development of the postmodern mind of the adult is groundbreaking and impressive in its depth. However, I ana lyze the limitations as well as the contributions of his approach, under scoring the advantages of my particular model.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Overview....Pages 19-31
The Postmodern Adult....Pages 33-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Self Development....Pages 63-85
Family Development....Pages 87-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Vygotskian Perspective on Cognitive Development....Pages 99-113
Contemporary Elaborations of Vygotskian Theory....Pages 115-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Cognitive (Mis)perception of the Other....Pages 147-170
Individual Differences and Coappropriation....Pages 171-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Postmodern Adult Therapy....Pages 193-227
Transition Therapy....Pages 229-245
Epistemology....Pages 247-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Elaborations, Conclusions, Contributions....Pages 261-290
Appendix: Political Discourse in Adolescents with Their Mothers....Pages 291-306
Postscript: From Adult Development to Communitarian Politics....Pages 307-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-380
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Overview....Pages 19-31
The Postmodern Adult....Pages 33-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Self Development....Pages 63-85
Family Development....Pages 87-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Vygotskian Perspective on Cognitive Development....Pages 99-113
Contemporary Elaborations of Vygotskian Theory....Pages 115-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Cognitive (Mis)perception of the Other....Pages 147-170
Individual Differences and Coappropriation....Pages 171-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Postmodern Adult Therapy....Pages 193-227
Transition Therapy....Pages 229-245
Epistemology....Pages 247-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Elaborations, Conclusions, Contributions....Pages 261-290
Appendix: Political Discourse in Adolescents with Their Mothers....Pages 291-306
Postscript: From Adult Development to Communitarian Politics....Pages 307-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-380
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