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In Over Our Heads: Mental Demands of Modern Life: The Mental Demands of Modern Life

In Over Our Heads: Mental Demands of Modern Life: The Mental Demands of Modern Life

by Robert Kegan (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

As parents and partners, employees and bosses, citizens and leaders, we constantly confront a bewildering array of expectations as well as a confusing assortment of expert opinions on what each of these roles entails. Surveying the expert "literatures", Robert Kegan brings them together to reveal what these many demands have in common. What emerges from 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 408
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0674445880
ISBN 13: 9780674445888

Media Reviews
A stimulating tour through the modern mind in society...In Over Our Heads is full of insight; it reflects broad learning and enormous intellectual effort. -- David Mehegan Boston Sunday Globe [This book] is intellectually exciting and far-reaching in its implications...Kegan's writing has much to offer developmental psychology, which suffers from a dearth of theoretical frameworks in the area of adult development...This book invites readers to work hard but rewards them greatly. There are foundation-shaking theoretical and research challenges here for mainstream psychology, especially behavioral and social learning approaches that focus on skill training and cumulative (quantitative) change...I thoroughly recommend this exciting book...It has the potential to transform our texts on life span development. It is a book that opens up whole new vistas for developmental researchers, as well as psychologists whose practice includes adult clients. -- Marie R. Joyce Contemporary Psychology A dazzling intellectual tour...In Over Our Heads provides us with 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. Health and Recovery
Author Bio
Robert Kegan is the William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.