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Title: The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan ISBN: 0-674-27231-5 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Developmental Masterpiece
Comment: The Evolving Self is one of the best books that I have ever read. Kegan's eloquent presentation of the dynamic process of human consciousness evolution is incredible. Kegan presents the very best of developmental theory, while at the same time acknowledging and avoiding the trappings that such a perspective tends to fall into. Developmental theory can often lead to a very compartmentalized view of people, but Kegan's emphasis on the person as a meaning-making process sidesteps these tendencies. Throughout his writings, I felt an incredible empathy with the undercurrent of evolution sliding under all personality. Rather than using his model to categorize myself and those around me (as I have an unfortunate inclination to do with developmental theory) I instead found myself identifying with the universal forces that run through all human beings which express themselves in and as the developmental stages. This might perhaps seem like an unimportant semantic shift, but in actuality it discloses a monumental difference between these two stances. This is true precisely because my ability to help another is proportional to the degree to which I can identify with them and their struggles. The warmth of this genuinely empathetic approach to psychological development is refreshing and liberating.
Rating: 5
Summary: a student of counseling
Comment: this is one of the very best books i've read on the topic of human developement. after reading keegan i strongly recomend reading ken wilber
Rating: 5
Summary: Ego Development (a la Piaget) from Infancy through adulthood
Comment: A challenging comprehensive look at human development through the lense of "meaning making" which Kegan asserts is the fundamental human activity. Not interested in developing the five (six if you count the birth stage) stages so much as describing the dynamic of forming (and dissolving) the negotiated "truces" between the need for inclusion (assimilation) and the need for differentiation. On this point, Kegan includes the feminist concern that most developmental research has been done on male subjects (who tend to test out on the differentiation end of what Kegan believes is a continuum) and includes the notion of assimilation in his dynamic helix (the paperback cover drawing is enormously descriptive of the text inside). Kegan is interested in the person who is doing the meaning making and his theory has enormous applicability in the therapeutic project: we are helping a human person whose ability to make meaning of their lives is temporarily in crisis (often because of the very proces of meaning making itself). One should expect this type of crisis because meaning making by its very nature is a process in evolution: various "made meanings" contain within themselves the components of an as yet unrevealed meaning that will come about in the future. When it begins to emerge the human experience will be one of loss of meaning in the service of the new meaning that is to be made. Wonderful, reverential treatment of the subject as meaning maker. Challenging to therapists to maintain their human touch and not pathologize the client by thinking that the present crisis is regression; rather the present crisis is an instance of the attempt to make meaning. Book is difficult to read because the thought is so condensed and well worked out and because the vision of the author challenges the reader's own made meaning. Tod S. Laverty, OFM, MS. [email protected] for further thoughts on this or author's other book In Over Our Heads (reviewed elsewhere on the web).
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Title: In over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan ISBN: 0674445880 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.65 |
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Title: How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work : Seven Languages for Transformation by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey ISBN: 078796378X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title:The Real Reason People Won't Change (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey ASIN: B00005U01D Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 24 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.00 |
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Title: Stages of Faith : The Psychology of Human Development by James W. Fowler ISBN: 0060628669 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 20 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind by Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, Jill Tarule ISBN: 0465090990 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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