Human Development and the Spiritual Life: How Consciousness Grows toward Transformation

✍ Scribed by Ronald R. Irwin (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: The Plenum Series in Adult Development and Aging
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The author proposes a theory of the development of consciousness in which ego is the central agent of socialization and culture and the driving force behind individual self-control and self-regulation. He reviews the literature on identity and narrative; outlines the fields of intellectual, self, moral, and consciousness development; and discusses the evidence indicating that the development of consciousness trancends the limitations of conventional ego development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Relevance of Psychology to Spiritual Development....Pages 3-24
The Nature of Development....Pages 25-33
Evolution....Pages 35-47
Impulse Control and Repression....Pages 49-64
Cognition....Pages 65-78
Language....Pages 79-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Identity....Pages 93-107
Narrative....Pages 109-135
Epistemic Knowing....Pages 137-147
Knowing the Self....Pages 149-168
Social and Moral Knowing....Pages 169-174
Cosmic Knowing....Pages 175-190
Conclusion....Pages 191-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-207

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Cognitive Psychology