Redemptive Self

In this revised and expanded edition of The Redemptive Self, McAdams shows how redemptive stories promote psychological health and civic engagement among contemporary American adults.

Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Director of the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University. Author of over 200 scientific articles and chapters and 6 books, Professor McAdams studies personality development in the adult years and the relationship between self and culture in contemporary American life.

Prologue How To Be Good in America
Chapter 1 Redemption and the American Soul
Chapter 2 The Generative Adult
Chapter 3 Life Stories
Chapter 4 How the Story Begins: The Chosen People
Chapter 5 My Good Inner Self: From Emerson to Oprah
Chapter 6 God Bless America
Chapter 7 Black (and White)
Chapter 8 Contaminated Plots, Vicious Circles
Chapter 9 When Redemption Fails
Chapter 10 Obama versus Bush: Competing Stories of Redemption
Chapter 11 Culture, Narrative, and the Self
Epilogue Final Thoughts and Confessions
Notes
References
Index