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The Postconventional Personality

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This volume, although rooted in Jane Loevinger’s work, goes beyond it in significant ways and presents a comprehensive examination of optimal adult development coming out of positive, developmental, and humanistic psychology. The introduction supplies the background and structure for a theory of the maturation of consciousness and introduces the reader to a rudimentary understanding of Loevinger’s (1976) model for ego development. It represents the path that most chapters in this text are either explicitly based on or the underpinning from which their work is derived. Additionally, this chapter presents a background into what is known and theorized about how consciousness changes as it expands from one stage to another, and how this expansion appears as lived experience. It ends with an overview of the studies that appear in this volume and the book’s overall significance for future research.
Developmental views in philosophy are at least as old as Friedrich Hegel’s 1807 publication of The Phenomenology of the Spirit. James Mark Baldwin (1861–1934), one of American psychology’s founding fathers was keenly aware of the importance of development for the human mind, but did not articulate a systematic theory of it. Since the mid-20th century, however, there has been a growing interest in individual maturation, or what many of the present authors term personal evolution. Especially in the second half of the 20th century, such developmental theorists such as Jean Piaget (1952), Laurence Kohlberg (1969), and Ken Wilber (1986, 1995, 2006) have catalyzed both academic and popular interest in developmental studies. Although Maslow (1954/1970) introduced the concept of self-actualization and optimal development into American psychology half a century ago, systematic, empirical research did not begin to emerge until recently under the term postconventional personality development

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The Postconventional Personality

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New York : New York Press., 2011

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1-285

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English

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978-1-4384-3465-0

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1st Edtion

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