The transformative self : personal growth, narrative identity, and the good life / Jack J. Bauer.

"Everyone wants a good life. Some try to create a good life by cultivating personal growth. They have a transformative self. This book explains how people form a transformative self, primarily in their evolving life stories, to help cultivate growth toward a life of happiness, love, and wisdom...

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Main Author: Bauer, Jack J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Explorations in narrative psychology.
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505 0 |a Introducing the transformative self -- The cultural master narrative of personal growth -- Growth and the good life -- Growth and a good life story -- Growthy tones in personal narratives -- Growth structure in personal narratives -- Transformative traits, motives, and experiences -- Transformative self-regulation and the quiet ego -- Growth in the hard and soft margins of society -- Nature, nurture, and 'ndividuality -- The transforming, transformative self -- The aging, transformative self -- Stages of transformative self-authorship -- The dark side of the transformative self -- Authenticity, self-actualizing, and self-authorship -- The self beyond the story. 
520 |a "Everyone wants a good life. Some try to create a good life by cultivating personal growth. They have a transformative self. This book explains how people form a transformative self, primarily in their evolving life stories, to help cultivate growth toward a life of happiness, love, and wisdom for the self and others. It introduces an innovative framework of values and personhood to strengthen and integrate three main areas of study: narrative identity, the good life, and personal growth. The result is a unique model of humane growth and human flourishing. Each chapter builds on that framework to explore topics central to the transformative self, such as how cultural beliefs of a good life shape our narrative identity; how narrative thinking shapes cultural and personal beliefs of a good life; how cultural master narratives shape our ideals for personal growth; how growth differs from gain, recovery, and other positive changes in the life story; how happiness, love, wisdom, and growth serve as superordinate goods in life; how the hard and soft margins of society thwart and facilitate personal growth; the dark side of growth; and the lengthy development of authenticity and self-actualizing. This book synthesizes scholarship from scientific research across several subfields of psychology to philosophy, literature, history, and cultural studies. It offers a creative and scientifically grounded framework for exploring three of life's perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? and How do we create one?"--Publisher's description. 
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