The Transformative Self
Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 October 2021
- ISBN 9780199970742
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages696 pages
- Size 157x239x45 mm
- Weight 1089 g
- Language English 201
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Short description:
The Transformative Self explains how people create a self-identity in their life stories to cultivate personal growth and the good life. Combining scientific research in psychology with work in philosophy, literature, history, and more, this book shows how personal and cultural narratives shape the development of happiness, love, and wisdom.
MoreLong description:
The Transformative Self explores three of life's perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? How do we create one?
In this comprehensive volume, developmental psychologist Jack J. Bauer responds to those three questions by integrating three main areas of study-narrative identity, the good life, and personal growth-to present an innovative model of humane flourishing and human development.
The Transformative Self synthesizes an extensive range of scholarship, from scientific research in psychology to work in philosophy, literature, history, cultural studies, and more. The result is a cohesive framework for understanding how personal and cultural stories shape our development and how, through those stories, we might cultivate the growth of happiness, love, and wisdom for the self and others.
This is a breathtaking and courageous book--perhaps the most original work in personality psychology in the 21st century. Building on developmental psychology, philosophy, and literature, it explores an enduring dimension of human nature--the search for growth in the pursuit of both happiness and wisdom. Not since Maslow has a psychologist so effectively portrayed the inner lives of individuals who organize their life stories around the search for self-understanding. Simultaneously scientifically rigorous and deeply felt, this magnum opus is invaluable to any reader interested in how we strive for and make meaning in our lives.
Table of Contents:
Section I: The Transformative Self as a Good Life Story
1. Introducing the Transformative Self
2. The Cultural Master Narrative of Personal Growth
3. Growth and the Good Life
4. Growth and a Good Life Story
5. Growthy Tones in Personal Narratives
6. Growth Themes in Personal Narratives
7. Growth Structure in Personal Narratives
Section II: The Person Who Has a Transformative Self
8. Transformative Traits, Motives, and Experiences
9. Transformative Self-Regulation and the Quiet Ego
10. Growth in the Hard and Soft Margins of Society
Section III: The Development of the Transformative Self
11. Nature, Nurture, and 'Ndividuality: Why Personal Growth Is Possible
12. The Transforming, Transformative Self: Identity Development
13. The Aging, Transformative Self: Growth Is Not Just for the Young
14. Stages of Transformative Self-Authorship
Section IV: Shadows and Illumination
15. The Dark Side of the Transformative Self
16. Authenticity, Self-Actualizing, and Self-Authorship
17. The Self Beyond the Story
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