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The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self

The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

"Who am I?" "How do I fit in the world around me?" This revealing and innovative book demonstrates that each of us discovers what is true and meaningful, in our lives and in ourselves, through the creation of personal myths. Challenging the traditional view that our personalities are formed by fixed, unchanging characteristics, or by predictable ...

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The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology

The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

Experience the story of a lifetime When you want to truly get to know a person, dates and facts about their life will only tell you so much. You need to look at the stories that define that person's life, as well as their individual traits and characteristics, as defined by human nature and culture. When it comes to studying personality, the ...

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The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live by

The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live by more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

Who are we as Americans? What is our deep identity? How do we make a good life? Renowned psychologist Dan P. McAdams suggests that the key to American identity lies in the stories we live by. And the most powerful life story in America today is the story of redemption. On a broad societal scale and in our own private lives, we want first and ...

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Intimacy more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

Dr. McAdams explores the development of intimacy in the human life cycle, from the parent-infant bond to the intense friendships of preadolescence to adult intimacy needs. He shows that men and women differ in the types of intimacy they crave.

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Power, Intimacy, and the Life Story: Personological Inquiries Into Identity

Power, Intimacy, and the Life Story: Personological Inquiries Into Identity more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

Who am I? And how do I fit into the world? These are the questions individuals ask themselves to make sense of their lives. Power, Intimacy and the Life Story addresses the human quest for identity. The author reinterprets some of the classic writings in psychology as he shows how each of us constructs a life story in order to meet the identity ...

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The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology

The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D.

Dan McAdams' "The Person, Third Edition," offers a bold and integrative vision for the field, bringing together the best from traditional personality theories and contemporary research around a focus on human lives. The Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and is now organized so that the first section provides an expanded treatment of the ...

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Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research

Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research more books like this

by Dr. Ruthellen Josselson (Editor), Dan P McAdams, Ph.D. (Editor), Dr. Amia Lieblich (Editor)

This volume brings together a diverse group of scholars who share their experiences in doing and teaching narrative research. Chapters offer a wide variety of innovative techniques and expansive theoretical perspectives.

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Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition

Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition more books like this

by American Psychological Association, Dan P McAdams, Ph.D. (Editor), Dr. Ruthellen Josselson (Editor)

Contributors analyze highly personalized life narratives to understand significant transitions and to answer a simple question: How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? Among the transitions examined are adolescent identity struggles, the move from school to work, divorce, setbacks in professional careers, the onset of ...

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The Person 3e

The Person 3e more books like this

by Dan P. McAdams

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The Person: An Introduction to Personality Psychology

The Person: An Introduction to Personality Psychology more books like this

by Dan P. McAdams

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Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of Psychotherapy

Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of Psychotherapy more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D., Dr. Ruthellen Josselson, Dr. Amia Lieblich

Packed with case studies, extensive illustrations and original research from the United States, Europe, and Israel, this book shows how the process of therapy enriches our understanding of narratives and their place in contemporary studies of human identity.

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Identity and Story: Creating Self in Narrative more books like this

by Dan P McAdams, Ph.D. (Editor), Dr. Ruthellen Josselson (Editor), Dr. Amia Lieblich (Editor)

The editors bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of creative researchers and theorists to examine the way the stories we tell create our identities. The contributors to this volume explore how, beginning in adolescence and young adulthood, narrative identities become the stories we live by.

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Generativity and Adult Development: How and Why We Care for the Next Generation more books like this

by Dan P. McAdams (Editor), Ed De St Aubin (Editor), Ed de St Aubin (Editor)

A feast of stimulating ideas, new research findings, and clinical wisdom about how adults fashion their lives in ways designed to promote the ensuing generations and to leave an enduring and beneficent legacy. In this volume. scholars present innovative new models that explain the development of generativity and present new research findings and ...

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Psychobiography and Life Narratives more books like this

by Dan P. McAdams (Editor), Richard L. Ochberg

"Psychobiography and Life Narratives" explores a number of exciting new approaches to the psychological understanding of individual lives. Eleven prominent scholars in personality and social, developmental, and clinical psychology have contributed chapters presenting innovative perspectives on discerning and developing "the story of my life" that ...

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The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships more books like this

by Dr. Ruthellen Josselson (Editor), Dr. Amia Lieblich (Editor), Dan P McAdams, Ph.D. (Editor)

Building on their previous volumes in the Narrative Study of Lives series, the editors illustrate the potential for narrative analysis to present new insights on human relationships.

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The Generative Society: Caring for Future Generations more books like this

by Ed De St Aubin, Ed St Aubin (Editor), Dan P McAdams, Ph.D. (Editor)

Adult individuals in all societies have long understood the need for generativity -- concern for and commitment to caring for the next generation. The need for generative action is particularly critical now given the societal and global threats that we face in the first years of the twenty-first century.Building upon Erikson's groundbreaking ...

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