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Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture

A Postmodern Synthesis

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Authors:
  1. Gerald Young

    1. Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging (SSAD)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model

    1. Prologue: A 25-Step Developmental Model

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 1-15

  3. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Overview

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 19-31

    3. The Postmodern Adult

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 33-59

  4. Self and Family Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Self Development

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 63-85

    3. Family Development

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 87-96

  5. Sociocultural Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Vygotskian Perspective on Cognitive Development

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 99-113

    3. Contemporary Elaborations of Vygotskian Theory

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 115-143

  6. Coconstructed Ameliorations of Vygotskian Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Cognitive (Mis)perception of the Other

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 147-170

    3. Individual Differences and Coappropriation

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 171-190

  7. Therapy and Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Postmodern Adult Therapy

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 193-227

    3. Transition Therapy

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 229-245

    4. Epistemology

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 247-258

  8. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. Elaborations, Conclusions, Contributions

      • Gerald Young
      Pages 261-290
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Gerald Young

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture

  • Book Subtitle: A Postmodern Synthesis

  • Authors: Gerald Young

  • Series Title: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9015-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45353-3Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9017-7Published: 25 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9015-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-709X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 259

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Personality and Social Psychology

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