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...Levinson has consciously tried to avoid the pitfalls of so many other studies of men in their worlds: a too-narrow focus of research. Psychologists tend to study the ego's changing role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what...
...Although psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget have discovered, through intensive study and observation of children, that people go through a given sequence of developmental phases in the early years of life, no full-scale or systematic study of the entire life course has ever been attempted--until Daniel Levinson and his co-workers at Yale in 1968 began the research that has finally resulted in his long-awaited book, The Seasons of a Man's Life...
According to Levinson the stages of the life cycle, and the transition periods which link the major eras, fall in the following definite pattern (allowing for a few years spread in each case to account for individual variation...
Crucial to his theory of adult development, as Levinson emphasized in his speech at Harvard last week, is the concept of the Dream, and the related concept of the Mentor. In forming a concept of himself, a young man necessarily imagines an ideal life for himself, whether he focuses on his career, relationships, or his intellectual life is unimportant; so long as he creates a mental picture of the Dream he will pursue his development is on course. He will modify the Dream as he grows and changes and learns about his life and himself, and he may even change...
...tragic that so little good mentoring actually occurs in our society," Levinson said, adding, "It is held back by individual limitations, and the unfortunate anonymity of our educational institutions...