Angela H. Pfaffenberger has a PhD in psychology and is an independent researcher in personality theory. She maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and acupuncturist in Salem, Oregon. Paul W. Marko has a PhD in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. He is a developmental psychologist who works with both organizations and individuals. Allan Combs is Professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His many books include Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness.

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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