Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture: A Postmodern Synthesis

by Gerald D. Young

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306453533
• ISBN13: 9780306453533
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"