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9780826189806

Aging and Biography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826189806

  • ISBN10:

    0826189806

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-12-01
  • Publisher: Springer Pub Co

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Summary

University of California, Los Angeles. Multidisciplinary research on the use of biography in understanding late adult development. For gerontologists, geriatricians, and psychologists.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Biography in Adult Development and Aging
1(20)
J.-E. Ruth
G. M. Kenyon
The Meaning/Value of Personal Storytelling
21(18)
G. M. Kenyon
Emotionality and Continuity in Biographical Contexts
39(22)
W. Mader
Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening
61(16)
B. J. Cohler
T. R. Cole
Narrative Knowing and the Study of Lives
77(23)
D. E. Polkinghorne
Competence and Quality of Life: Theoretical Views of Biography
100(17)
T. Svensson
The Fractal Structure of Lives: Continuity and Discontinuity in Autobiography
117(14)
J. J. F. Schroots
Narrating the Self in Adulthood
131(18)
D. P. McAdams
The Complexity of Personal Narratives
149(18)
B. de Vries
A. J. Lehman
Ways of Life: Old age in a Life History perspective
167(20)
J.-E. Ruth
P. Oberg
Experienced Aging as Elucidated by Narratives
187(18)
R.-L. Heikkinen
Beyond Life Narratives in the Therapeutic Encounter
205(19)
K. J. Gergen
Restorying a Life: Adult Education and Transformative Learning
224(24)
W. L. Randall
Life Review and Reminiscence in Nursing Practice
248(17)
I. Burnside
Biographical Assessment in Community Care
265(18)
B. Gearing
P. Coleman
Autobiography: Exploring the Self and Encouraging Development
283(18)
J. E. Birren
B. A. Birren
References 301(42)
Index 343

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