The Postconventional Personality

List of Tables
Introduction: Exceptional Maturity of Personality
An Emerging Field
Angela H. Pfaffenberger and Paul W. Marko

PART I: ASSESSING ADVANCED PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

1. Assessing Postconventional Personality: How Valid and Reliable is the Sentence Completion Test?
Angela H. Pfaffenberger

2. My Brain Made Me Do It: Brain Maturation and Levels of Self-Development
Fred Travis and Sue Brown

3. Generating and Measuring Practical Differences in Leadership Performance at Postconventional Action-Logics
Elaine Herdman Barker and William R. Torbert

4. A Report from the Scoring Trenches
Susanne R. Cook-Greuter

PART II: EMERGING RESEARCH ABOUT POSTCONVENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

5. The Issue of Highest Stages in Structural-Developmental Theories
Tobias Krettenauer

6. Exploring Facilitative Agents that Allow Ego Development to Occur
Paul W. Marko

7. The Postconventional Self: Ego Maturity, Growth Stories ... and Happiness?
Jack Bauer

8.Postconventional Ego Development and Self-Transcendencein Religious Renunciates
Heidi Page

9. Leadership at Postconventional Stages of Adult Development
Bill Joiner

PART III: THEORIES OF ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT

10. Is Higher Better? A Review and Analysis of the Correlates of Postconventional Ego Development
Tracie Blumentritt

11. The Challenge of Ego Development: Intentional versus Active Development
Laura King

12. Transcendent Experience and Development of the Postrepresentational Self
Dennis Heaton

13.Believing As If: Postconventional Stages, Cognitive Complexity, and Postformal Religious Constructions
James Meredith Day

14. A Dynamical View of the Personality in Evolution
Allan Combs and Stanley Krippner

15. The Prism Self Revisited: The Matter of Integrity
Judith Stevens-Long

References
List of Contributors
Index