ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses recent theorists of adult development in relationship to Carl Gustav Jung in order to assess what they have contributed to our understanding of adult development. It discusses the early history of life-span, developmental psychology and the emergence of 'adulthood' as a specialized field of study. The book argues that Jung's introverted self-psychology, complements and supplements mainstream adult developmental psychology. Jung seems to have been relatively unaware of how important organizational worlds are in the lives of individuals in modern society. As he grew older, Jung became less interested in the image of development or in correlating personality changes with stages in life. The adult developmental psychology of the future will combine the virtues of both ego-psychology and Jung's self-psychology, in a broader holistic systems perspective.
