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Adult Personality Development
Volume 1: Theories and Concepts

First Edition

Lawrence S. Wrightsman - University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Other Titles in:
Adulthood & Aging

May 1994 | 227 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Contents

These stimulating companion volumes reflect an expansion of the coverage of Wrightsman's earlier book Personality Development in Adulthood.

They encourage readers to look at the evolving nature of their own lives, and include case studies throughout to illustrate concepts in a thought-provoking, non-technical manner.

Conceptions of Personality Development in Adulthood

Psychoanalysis as an Early-Formation Theory

Theorists' Lives

Do They Determine Their Theories?

Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development

Psychobiography and Personality Development in Adulthood

Contemporary Stage Theories

Havighurst and Gould

Contemporary Stage Theories

Daniel Levinson

The Dialectical Approach

Change Versus Consistency in Personality Development

An Attempt at Integration

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