Turns in the Road

by McAdams, Dan P.; Josselson, Ruthellen; Lieblich, Amia

• ISBN13: 9781557987730
• ISBN10: 1557987734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? In T urns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition, accomplish ed scholars explore highly personalized life narratives to help us und erstand significant transitions and turning points in the human life c ourse. Their analyses reveal the nuances of such transitions as adoles cents gaining a stronger sense of identity, recent graduates taking th eir place in the world of work, a young man struggling to overcome add iction, and middle-aged women coming to terms with divorce. Uniting th em all are dramatic epiphanies and conversions that lead to a new sens e of self in the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Contributors	ix
The Narrative Study of Lives: Introduction to the Series	xi
Turns in the Road: Introduction to the Volume	xv
Narrating Life's Turning Points: Redemption and Contamination	3	(32)
Dan P. McAdams
Philip J. Bowman
The Crime, Punishment, and Ethical Transformation of Two Radicals: Or How Katherine Power Improves on Dostoevsky	35	(32)
Janet Landman
De Profundis: Prison as a turning Point in Oscar Wilde's Life Story	67	(24)
William Todd Schultz
Ever Upward and No Turning Back: Social Mobility and Identity Formation Among First-Generation College Students	91	(30)
J. Scott Roberts
George C. Rosenwald
Moving Up and the Problem of Explaining an ``Unreasonable'' Ambition	121	(30)
Richard L. Ochberg
William Comeau
Serendipity and Agency in Narratives of Transition: Young Adult Women and Their Careers	151	(26)
Marcy Plunkett
The Setback of a Doctor's Career	177	(26)
Varpu Loyttyniemi
Women's Understandings of Their Own Divorces: A Developmental Perspective	203	(24)
Amy M. Young
Abigail J. Stewart
Kathi Miner-Rubino
Adolescents' Representations of the Parent Voice in Stories of Personal Turning Points	227	(26)
Michael W. Pratt
Mary Louise Arnold
Kathleen Mackey
Living in the Amber Cloud: a Life Story Analysis of a Heroin Addict	253	(26)
Jefferson A. Singer
Sense of Place and its Import for Life Transitions: The Case of HIV-Positive Individuals	279	(18)
Michele L. Crossley
Author Index	297	(6)
Subject Index	303	(6)
About the Editors	309