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Evolving Self Problem and Process in Human Development

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ISBN-10: 0674272315

ISBN-13: 9780674272316

Edition: 1982

Authors: Robert Kegan

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The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan, meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The Evolving Self describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail, concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and transition, its costs and disruptions as well as its triumphs. At the heart of our meaning-making activity, the book suggests, is the drawing and redrawing of the distinction between…    
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/15/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.21" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Robert Kegan is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Prologue: Construction and Development
Evolutionary Truces
The Unrecognized Genius of Jean Piaget
The Evolution of Moral Meaning-Making
The Constitutions of the Self
The Natural Emergencies of the Self
The Growth and Loss of the Incorporative Self
The Growth and Loss of the Impulsive Self
The Growth and Loss of the Imperial Self
The Growth and Loss of the Interpersonal Self
The Growth and Loss of the Institutional Self
Natural Therapy
References
Index