psychology Since the appearance of Abraham Maslow’s needs hierarchy in the 1950s, devel-opmental theories have played an important role in understanding the forms and directions of human growth and development. The applications of such theories range from management strategies to psychotherapy but also play an important role in understanding transformation processes in education. Spiral Dynamics,1 (Beck & Cowen, 1996) a developmental model of value structures, is nearly as popular today as Maslow’s model was in the 1970s. Curiously, it is based almost entirely on the work of Clare Graves, an obscure academic psychologist who did most of his research from the 1950s through the 1970s. It is hoped that this review, and The Never Ending Quest itself, will shed light on these all but forgotten origins. The book under review here was compiled from Clare Graves’s unpublished manuscript, with reconstructions of missing chapters drawn from his papers and audiotapes. It recounts the fascinati...
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