Exploring Existential Meaning : Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span.

Exploring Existential Meaning : Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span.

Both implicit and existential meaning are important constructs in fully understanding human experience. The editors of this volume present a forum for an array of viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reker, Gary T. T.
Other Authors: Chamberlain, Dr. Kerry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Subjects:
Life.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Meaning (Psychology)
Existentialism.
Life change events.
existentialism.
Existentialism
Life
Life change events
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I
  • Theoretical and Conceptual Issues; Chapter 1
  • Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning; Chapter 2
  • Meaning as Movement: The Relativity of the Mind; Chapter 3
  • Theoretical Perspective, Dimensions, and Measurement of Existential Meaning; Part II
  • Research on Existential Meaning; Chapter 4
  • Structural Components of Personal Meaning in Life and Their Relationship with Death Attitudes and Coping Mechanisms in Late Adulthood.
  • Chapter 5
  • Dimensions and Discourses of Meaning in Life: Approaching Meaning from Qualitative PerspectivesChapter 6
  • An Inquiry Into Existential Meaning: Theoretical, Clinical, and Phenomenal Perspectives; Chapter 7
  • The Personal Meaning System in a Life-Span Perspective; Chapter 8
  • The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Sources of Life Meaning; Part III
  • Applications and Interventions; Chapter 9
  • Finding Meaning in Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: African American and White Caregivers' Perspectives.
  • Chapter 10
  • Making Meaning within the Experience of Life- Threatening IllnessChapter 11
  • Religion and Meaning in Late Life; Chapter 12
  • Logotherapeutic and ""Depth Psychology"" Approaches to Meaning and Psychotherapy; Part IV
  • Overview and New Directions; Chapter 13
  • Existential Meaning: Reflections and Directions; Author Index; Subject Index.

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