Finding Meaning: An Existential Quest in Post-Modern Israel - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190910356 ISBN 13: 9780190910358

Publisher: OUP USA, 2021

Synopsis

This book implements a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers a search for meaning among its contemporary citizens.

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About the Author

Ofra Mayseless is a former dean and current professor of developmental psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel; she is also the head of the Multi-University Center for the Study of Human Spirit. She published over 100 articles and chapters, edited two books, and authored one. She studies attachment, caring motivation, transition to adulthood, search for meaning and spiritual development.

Pninit Russo-Netzer is a senior lecturer and researcher. Her main research and practice interests focus on meaning in life, positive psychology, existential psychology, spirituality, positive change and growth. She is the head of the Education Department at Achva Academic College, the founder and head of the 'Compass' Institute for the Study and Application of Meaning in life, and the head of the Academic Training Program for Logotherapy (meaning-oriented psychotherapy) at Tel-Aviv University. She published scholarly journal articles and chapters on these topics, and co-edited the books Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology, and Clinical Perspectives of Meaning.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190910356
• ISBN 13: 9780190910358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Mayseless Ofra, Russo-Netzer Pninit