The Seasons of a Man's Life
by Levinson, Daniel J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1978-02-01
Publisher(s): Random House Inc
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Summary
This is the first full report from the team that discovered the patterns of adult development. Ranking in significance with the original works of Kinsey and Erikson, it explores and explains the specific periods of personal development through which all human beings must pass-and which together form a common pattern underlying all human lives. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| A View of Adult Development | |
| The Life Cycle and Its Seasons | p. 3 |
| Eras: The Anatomy of the Life Cycle | p. 18 |
| Developmental Periods: The Evolution of the Individual Life Structure | p. 40 |
| Four Men | p. 64 |
| The Novice Phase of Early Adulthood | |
| The Novice Phase: The Early Adult Transition, Entering the Adult World, and the Age Thirty Transition | p. 71 |
| Major Tasks of the Novice Phase | p. 90 |
| The Life of James Tracy, Executive (I) | p. 112 |
| The Life of William Paulsen, Worker | p. 126 |
| The Settling Down Period | |
| Settling Down: Building a Second Adult Life Structure | p. 139 |
| Five Sequences Through the Settling Down Period | p. 150 |
| The Life of James Tracy (II) | p. 166 |
| The Life of Paul Namson, Novelist | p. 171 |
| The Mid-Life Transition and Entering Middle Adulthood | |
| The Mid-life Transition | p. 191 |
| Mid-life Individuation: Young/Old, the Major Polarity | p. 209 |
| Mid-life Individuation: The Other Polarities | p. 222 |
| Modifying the Life Structure During the Mid-life Transition | p. 245 |
| The Life of John Barnes, Biologist | p. 260 |
| Entering Middle Adulthood | p. 278 |
| The Life of James Tracy (III) | p. 305 |
| Conclusions | |
| Tasks and Possibilities of Adult Development | p. 317 |
| Notes | p. 341 |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 353 |
| Index | p. 355 |
| Table of Contents provided by Rittenhouse. All Rights Reserved. |
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