Overview

This book advances an integrative approach to understanding the phenomenon of psychosocial maturation. Through a rigorous, dialectically-informed interpretation of psychoanalytic and humanistic-existential-phenomenological sources, Mufid James Hannush distils thirty essential markers of maturity. The dialectical approach is described as a process whereby lived, affect-and-value laden polar meanings are transformed, through deep insight, into complementary and integrative meta-meanings. The author demonstrates how responding to the call of maturation can be viewed as a life project that serves the ultimate purpose of living a balanced life. The book will appeal to students and scholars of human development, psychotherapy, social work, philosophy, and existential, humanistic, and phenomenological psychology.

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Hannush's work is a psychoeducational tour de force on psychosocial maturation. ... The reader will appreciate that each chapter as a dedicated reference page(s) ... . This scholarly text would be excellent support for a graduate-level course in psychosocial maturation as well as lifespan development. ... Without doubt, the reader will enjoy much wisdom in this book. ... This instructive, comprehensive, and perceptive book thus ends with optimism and hope for our enduring and maturing selves ... . (Robert McInerney, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 53 (1), 2022)

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Mufid James Hannush was Associate Professor of Psychology at Rosemont College in Rosemont, USA. Professor Hannush is the author of Becoming Good Parents: An Existential Journey (2002).

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