"The Transformational Self" concept is a fresh attempt to answer
the question, "When does adolescence end?." It moves the discussion
away from using traditional developmental tasks as indicators of
the transition to the analysis of dynamic interactional processes
gathered from an interdisciplinary context known as regulation
theory.This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion
regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal
transformational changes associated with the transition from
adolescence to young adulthood. The author introduces the concept
of the Transformational Self, a phase-specific dimension of the
neural self, and demonstrates the enhanced explanatory power that
it offers in attempting to examine the sometimes dramatic shifting
self-states accompanying the metamorphosis from adolescence into
young adulthood. A necessary precondition for the emergence of the
Transformational Self is the maturation of the pre-frontal cortex
and its enhanced neural connectivity. With this biological
achievement, executive functioning, a strengthened ego/self
capacity, can arrive at a mature level of external stabilization
and internal, intrapsychic structuralization. Conceptualized in
self-referencing metaphor and expressed and reinforced through long
term potentiation (repeated firing patterns of synchronous neural
assemblies), the late adolescent reconfigured self-state becomes a
true developmental potentiality evidenced by the use of different
self (and other) representations. In other words, self referencing
metaphor becomes the pathway to personal metamorphosis. The
psychotherapies of two mid-adolescent girls illustrate the
application of the Transformational Self concept.
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