The Postconventional Personality -- Contents -- Tables -- Introduction: Exceptional Maturity of Personality: An Emerging Field -- Part I. Assessing Advanced Personality Development -- 1. Assessing Postconventional Personality: How Valid and Reliable is the Sentence Completion Test? -- 2. My Brain Made Me Do It: Brain Maturation and Levels of Self-Development -- 3. Generating and Measuring Practical Differences inLeadership Performance atPostconventional Action-Logics: Developing the Harthill Leadership Development Profifile -- 4. A Report from the Scoring Trenches -- Part II. Emerging Research About Postconventional Development -- 5. The Issue of Highest Stages in Structural-Developmental Theories -- 6. Exploring Facilitative Agents that Allow Ego Development to Occur -- 7. The Postconventional Self: Ego Maturity, Growth Stories . . . and Happiness? -- 8. Postconventional Ego Development and Self-Transcendence in Religious Renunciates -- 9. Leadership at Postconventional Stages of Adult Development -- Part III. Theories of Advanced Development -- 10. Is Higher Better?A Review and Analysis of the Correlates of Postconventional Ego Development -- 11. The Challenge of Ego Development Intentional versus Active Development -- 12. Transcendent Experience and Development of the Postrepresentational Self -- 13. Believing As If: Postconventional Stages, Cognitive Complexity ,and Postformal Religious Constructions -- 14. A Dynamical View of the Personality in Evolution -- 15. The Prism Self Revisited: The Matter of Integrity -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.