Turns in the road : narrative studies of lives in transition /

Analyzes personalized life narratives to understand significant turning points in the human life course and to answer this central question: How do people make meaning out of the transitions in their lives? Among the transitions examined are adolescent identity struggles, the move from school to wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Other Authors: McAdams, Dan P., Josselson, Ruthellen, Lieblich, Amia, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2001]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Ative Study of Lives Ser.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Narrating life's turning points : redemption and contamination / Dan P. McAdams, Philip J. Bowman
  • The crime, punishment, and ethical transformation of two radicals : or how Katherine Power improves on Dostoevsky / Janet Landman
  • De profundis : prison as a turning point in Oscar Wilde's life story / William Todd Schultz
  • Ever upward and no turning back : social mobility and identity formation among first-generation college students / J. Scott Roberts, George C. Rosenwald
  • Moving up and the problem of explaining an "unreasonable" ambition / Richard L. Ochberg, William Comeau
  • Serendipity and agency in narratives of transition : young adult women and their careers / Marcy Plunkett
  • The setback of a doctor's career / Varpu Löyttyniemi
  • Women's understandings of their own divorces : a developmental perspective / Amy M. Young, Abigail J. Stewart, Kathi Miner-Rubino
  • Adolescents' representations of the parent voice in stories of personal turning points / Michael W. Pratt, Mary Louise Arnold, Kathleen Mackey
  • Living in the amber cloud : a life story analysis of a heroin addict / Jefferson A. Singer
  • Sense of place and its import for life transitions : the case of HIV-positive individuals / Michele L. Crossley.