Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture

1. Front Matter

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2. Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model

   1. Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model

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      Pages 1-15

3. Introduction

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   2. Overview

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   3. The Postmodern Adult

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4. Self and Family Development

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Self Development

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      Pages 63-85

   3. Family Development

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      Pages 87-96

5. Sociocultural Development

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      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Vygotskian Perspective on Cognitive Development

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   3. Contemporary Elaborations of Vygotskian Theory

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6. Coconstructed Ameliorations of Vygotskian Theory

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   2. The Cognitive (Mis)perception of the Other

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      Pages 147-170

   3. Individual Differences and Coappropriation

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      Pages 171-190

7. Therapy and Epistemology

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   2. Postmodern Adult Therapy

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   3. Transition Therapy

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   4. Epistemology

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8. Conclusions

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   2. Elaborations, Conclusions, Contributions

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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.

• Self
• communication
• culture
• development
• evolution
• family
• family development
• perception
• psychotherapy
• therapy

• Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Gerald Young

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