The Postconventional Personality: Assessing, Researching, and Theorizing Higher Development

Drawing on and extending the work of Jane Loevinger, psychologists explore optimal adult development coming out of positive, developmental, and humanistic psychology. Their topics include brain maturation and levels of self-development, generating and measuring practical differences in leadership performance at postconventional action-logics, the issue of highest stages in structural-developmental theories, postconventional ego development and self-transcendence in religious renunciates, transcendent experience and development of the post-representational self, and a dynamical view of the personality in evolution. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)