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Adult Development, Therapy, and Culture
Gerald D. Young
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Paperback. Series: The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Adult Development and Aging
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475790177
SKU
V9781475790177
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