The Evolving Self

Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061843148
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Self written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed sequel to the international bestseller Flow: an intelligent, inspiring guide to unlocking the evolutionary history of our present consciousness, and “becoming at one with the power that is the universe.” “A book of singular importance and timeliness, one with momentous implications for the future.”— Howard Gardner In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s bestselling Flow, he introduced readers to a radical new theory of happiness. Now in The Evolving Self—his breakthrough sequel—he demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary shortcomings. Premised on the idea that only through a reckoning with our evolutionary past can we build a stable, meaningful future, The Evolving Self covers the challenges associated with our cognitive evolutionary history (“As far as controlling the mind is concerned, we are like a novice driver behind the wheel of a racing car”); the distortions of reality we experience due to genes, culture, and our sense of self; and the central importance of “flow” from an evolutionary perspective as we look toward the future. Erudite, perceptive, and insightful—and more important now than ever, as our consciousnesses are increasingly mediated by electronic devices—The Evolving Self is a timely resource for anyone looking to improve our world for ourselves and for generations to come.

Author : Robert KEGAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039416
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Self written by Robert KEGAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems—the individual’s effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan, meaning-making is a lifelong activity that begins in earliest infancy and continues to evolve through a series of stages encompassing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The Evolving Self describes this process of evolution in rich and human detail, concentrating especially on the internal experience of growth and transition, its costs and disruptions as well as its triumphs. At the heart of our meaning-making activity, the book suggests, is the drawing and redrawing of the distinction between self and other. Using Piagetian theory in a creative new way to make sense of how we make sense of ourselves, Kegan shows that each meaning-making stage is a new solution to the lifelong tension between the universal human yearning to be connected, attached, and included, on the one hand, and to be distinct, independent, and autonomous on the other. The Evolving Self is the story of our continuing negotiation of this tension. It is a book that is theoretically daring enough to propose a reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex and clinically concerned enough to suggest a variety of fresh new ways to treat those psychological complaints that commonly arise in the course of development. Kegan is an irrepressible storyteller, an impassioned opponent of the health-and-illness approach to psychological distress, and a sturdy builder of psychological theory. His is an original and distinctive new voice in the growing discussion of human development across the life span.

Author : Steven D. Axelrod
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881632071
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and the Evolving Self written by Steven D. Axelrod and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Work and the Evolving Self, Steven Axelrod begins to remedy this serious oversight by setting forth a comprehensive psychoanalytic perspective on work life. Consonant with his analytic perspective, Axelrod sets out to illuminate the workplace by examining the psychodynamic meaning of work throughout the life cycle. He begins by exploring the various dimensions of work satisfaction from a psychoanalytic perspective and then expands on the relationship between work life and the adult developmental process. This developmental perspective frames Axelrod's central task: an examination of the typical work-related problems encountered in clinical practice, beginning with a psychodynamic definition of a "work disturbance." Moving on to treatment issues, Axelrod elaborates on the manner in which assessment, supportive, and exploratory interventions all enter into the treatment of work disturbances. Axelrod concludes by considering issues of career development that emerge in individual psychotherapy and exploring the psychological implications of dramatic changes now taking place in the workplace. As such, Work and the Evolving Self is an impressive contribution to the task with which psychoanalytic therapists are increasingly engaged: that of broadening their identities and treatment approaches in a world that increasingly demands flexibility and innovation.

Author : Lihong Xie
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119242
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin written by Lihong Xie and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Xie leads us through these works, we find Godwin's evolving heroines emerging out of lively, intense, sometimes painful dialogue with both the self - past, present, and future - and the social world of family, birthplace, culture, and friendships.

Author : Gibbs A. Williams
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 0765707047
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) written by Gibbs A. Williams and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) is an original naturalistic theory of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) as well as a blueprint for identifying, decoding, interpreting, and utilizing their embedded self-generated 'messages' in ways that are intellectually innovative and experientially useful. Interested readers are promised an experience that will unquestionably stimulate their self-awareness and, in so doing, expand their consciousness.

Author : Robert Kegan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674445888
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Over Our Heads written by Robert Kegan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the disparate expert "literatures," which normally take no account of each other, Kegan brings them together to reveal, for the first time, what these many demands have in common. Our frequent frustration in trying to meet these complex and often conflicting claims results, he shows us, from a mismatch between the way we ordinarily know the world and the way we are unwittingly expected to understand it. In Over Our Heads provides us entirely fresh perspectives on a number of cultural controversies - the "abstinence vs. safe sex" debate, the diversity movement, communication across genders, the meaning of postmodernism. What emerges in these pages is a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development much as we view child development, as an open-ended process born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental capabilities.

Author : Vito Trianni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540776117
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Swarm Robotics written by Vito Trianni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the use of ER techniques for the design of self-organising group behaviours, for both simulated and real robots is introduced. The book tries to mediate between two apparently opposed perspectives: engineering and cognitive science. The experiments presented in the book and the results obtained contribute to the assessment of ER not only as a design tool, but also as a methodology for modelling and understanding intelligent adaptive behaviours.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9814474177
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Self-Evolving Cosmos written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Sander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136871586
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person written by Louis Sander and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a life’s work. The idea concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process – a process in which there is a continuing impetus, both energizing and motivational, that moves the living system toward an enhanced coherence in its engagement with its surround as it achieves an ever-increasing inclusiveness of complexity. The papers have been selected in a roughly chronological order from a career of early developmental research within the background of psychoanalytic thinking. The biological underpinnings of psychoanalysis can be extended by systems thinking. Our notions of the evolution of consciousness can also be extended from this simple level of a neural machinery essential for adaptation and survival to the capacity for the awareness of one’s own inner state within the flow of one’s engagement with one’s surround. From this enrichment of inner experiencing through evolving self-awareness, the unique organization of the "person" emerges within the developmental process – from expectancies and emotions, to values, meaning, purpose, goals, and "direction". The title of the book has been chosen to capture this sequence. Further evolution of conscious organization will enable the human species to achieve the state of being "together-with" and yet "distinct-from" as the system as a whole, on a wider, more global level, gains increasing coherence as it complexity increases. Hopefully, the implications of this idea will emerge in the reader’s thinking, as the chapters move from the level of adaptation to recognition.

Author : Tobe Terrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781072702504
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Do You Think You Are? written by Tobe Terrell and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why am I writing this book? It's a humble effort to reopen some human hearts and reverse the direction that we are following toward extinction. Rescue can only come through the efforts of each individual. We have relied on politicians, technology, corporations, charitable organizations, religious organizations, schools and other impersonal efforts. All have failed to reverse a course that drives us ever faster to extinction. Fundamental changes have to be made. They can only be made in the human heart. Yoga changed my heart and spun me in a different direction. I am only one person. You are only one person. To make the necessary changes seems impossible when made one person at a time. But I believe that it is the only means available to us. None of us individually knows how to fuel the kind of changes that must happen. And the organizations that have enough power the make great social change, lack the will. But there is a force that can arise from each human heart that knows how and has the power. It's up to each of us to release it.