Michael Washburn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World, The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development, and Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective, all published by SUNY Press.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: RETHINKING THE NOTION OF THE EGO 1. The Birth of the Ego: Descartes's "Thing That Thinks" 2. Before the Ego: Greek Philosophy, Christian Doctrine, and the New Physics of the Seventeenth Century 3. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage One: From Descartes to the End of the Nineteenth Century 4. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage Two: The Twentieth Century 5. The Ego's Self-System and Lifeworld PART II: RETHINKING EGO DEVELOPMENT 6. The First Four Weeks 7. Infancy 8. Early Toddling 9. Late Toddling and the Preschool Years 10. Middle Childhood 11. Adolescence 12. Early Adulthood 13. Midlife 14. Retirement 15. Old Age PART III: RETHINKING THE EGO'S ROLE IN SPIRITUAL LIFE 16. Spiritual Preawakening 17. Spiritual Awakening 18. Spiritual Growth 19. Spiritual Maturity Notes References Index

"Michael Washburn is considered one of the most authoritative theorists of transpersonal development, and Recentering the Self provides a much-needed supplement to his theory, offering a reexamination of the notion of the ego and its development, first within the general context of the human lifespan and then within the specific context of spiritual life." — Massimo Marraffa, Roma Tre University

Michael Washburn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World, The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development, and Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective, all published by SUNY Press.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: RETHINKING THE NOTION OF THE EGO 1. The Birth of the Ego: Descartes's "Thing That Thinks" 2. Before the Ego: Greek Philosophy, Christian Doctrine, and the New Physics of the Seventeenth Century 3. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage One: From Descartes to the End of the Nineteenth Century 4. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage Two: The Twentieth Century 5. The Ego's Self-System and Lifeworld PART II: RETHINKING EGO DEVELOPMENT 6. The First Four Weeks 7. Infancy 8. Early Toddling 9. Late Toddling and the Preschool Years 10. Middle Childhood 11. Adolescence 12. Early Adulthood 13. Midlife 14. Retirement 15. Old Age PART III: RETHINKING THE EGO'S ROLE IN SPIRITUAL LIFE 16. Spiritual Preawakening 17. Spiritual Awakening 18. Spiritual Growth 19. Spiritual Maturity Notes References Index

"Michael Washburn is considered one of the most authoritative theorists of transpersonal development, and Recentering the Self provides a much-needed supplement to his theory, offering a reexamination of the notion of the ego and its development, first within the general context of the human lifespan and then within the specific context of spiritual life." — Massimo Marraffa, Roma Tre University

Michael Washburn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University South Bend. He is the author of Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World, The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development, and Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective, all published by SUNY Press.

• List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: RETHINKING THE NOTION OF THE EGO 1. The Birth of the Ego: Descartes's "Thing That Thinks" 2. Before the Ego: Greek Philosophy, Christian Doctrine, and the New Physics of the Seventeenth Century 3. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage One: From Descartes to the End of the Nineteenth Century 4. Rethinking the Notion of the Ego, Stage Two: The Twentieth Century 5. The Ego's Self-System and Lifeworld PART II: RETHINKING EGO DEVELOPMENT 6. The First Four Weeks 7. Infancy 8. Early Toddling 9. Late Toddling and the Preschool Years 10. Middle Childhood 11. Adolescence 12. Early Adulthood 13. Midlife 14. Retirement 15. Old Age PART III: RETHINKING THE EGO'S ROLE IN SPIRITUAL LIFE 16. Spiritual Preawakening 17. Spiritual Awakening 18. Spiritual Growth 19. Spiritual Maturity Notes References Index

"Michael Washburn is considered one of the most authoritative theorists of transpersonal development, and Recentering the Self provides a much-needed supplement to his theory, offering a reexamination of the notion of the ego and its development, first within the general context of the human lifespan and then within the specific context of spiritual life." — Massimo Marraffa, Roma Tre University