The Postconventional Personality: Assessing, Researching, and Theorizing Higher Development
by Pfaffenberger, Angela H.; Marko, Paul W.; Combs, AllanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-04-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary
Cutting edge volume devoted to optimal adult development.
Author Biography
Angela H. Pfaffenberger has a PhD in psychology and is an independent researcher in personality theory. She maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and acupuncturist in Salem, Oregon. Paul W. Marko has a PhD in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. He is a developmental psychologist who works with both organizations and individuals. Allan Combs is Professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His many books include Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness.
Table of Contents
| List of Tables | p. vii |
| Introduction: Exceptional Maturity of Personality: An Emerging Field | p. 1 |
| Assessing Advanced Personality Development | |
| Assessing Postconventional Personality: How Valid and Reliable is the Sentence Completion Test? | p. 9 |
| My Brain Made me do It: Brain Maturation and Levels of Self-Development | p. 23 |
| Generating and Measuring Practical Differences in Leadership Performance at Postconventional Action-Logics | p. 39 |
| A Report from the Scoring Trenches | p. 57 |
| Emerging Research about Postconventional Development | |
| The Issue of Highest Stages in Structural-Developmental Theories | p. 75 |
| Exploring Facilitative Agents that Allow Ego Development to Occur | p. 87 |
| The Postconventional Self: Ego Maturity, Growth Stories ... and Happiness? | p. 101 |
| Postconventional Ego Development and Self-Transcendence in Religious Renunciates | p. 119 |
| Leadership at Postconventional Stages of Adult Development | p. 133 |
| Theories of Advanced Development | |
| Is Higher Better? A Review and Analysis of the Correlates of Postconventional Ego Development | p. 153 |
| The Challenge of Ego Development: Intentional versus Active Development | p. 163 |
| Transcendent Experience and Development of the Postrepresentational Self | p. 175 |
| Believing As If: Postconventional Stages, Cognitive Complexity, and Postformal Religious Constructions | p. 189 |
| A Dynamical View of the Personality in Evolution | p. 205 |
| The Prism Self Revisited: The Matter of Integrity | p. 221 |
| References | p. 233 |
| List of Contributors | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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