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The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
by Robert Kegan
from Harvard University Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Accidentally? Yes, But My Good Fortune!
In the fall of 1981 I received a Merrill Fellowship to the Harvard Divinity School. I went expecting to take a seminar with Lawrence Kohlberg, the deservedly famous scholar who worked in the area of human development. I had even bought a book he wrote in anticipation of the experience. I found out that he was on leave and would not be at Harvard at all during the semester I was there. With great disappointment and reluctance I enrolled in a course that was recommended to me by Professor Sharon Parks.
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Brilliant, Helpful
It's hard to exaggerate how good this book is. I am reading it as part of a Masters class in developmental psychology and it is simply brilliant. Whether reading it for personal awareness or insights into client problems, it provides an overview of developmenal theories, while proposing its own elegant understanding of the lifelong spiraling cycle of evolution which is life. It is worth any effort and deserves multiple readings. Buy it and its companion book How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work by... more info
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Definitive book on Identity development
In this very readable text, Kegan provides descriptive, anecdotal examples of
his arguments, making his concepts easier to grasp.
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a natural history of meaning
I'd be really surprised if there were many books as brilliant as this one on the subject of human development. It not only captures its subject in its very motion, but actually manages to show what is there in common between the great variety of forms it takes on different planes: compare for instance the self-assertions of a 5 year old uncompromising "imperialist" to an adult's exercises of control at his work settings. Or the undifferentiated merger of a child with her mother to the overwhelming... more info
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