This last fact is the one that pulls me up short . I can't help thinking about my dad when he was in his early forties . I cannot imagine him doing something like this — cavorting , playing , being a little boy in the middle of life .
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Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452906238
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Don't worry, in part two of this compassionate book, Andrew G. Marshall explains: A whole new vocabulary for discussing the midlife crisis without putting your partner's back up. What's really going on in your partner's head.
Author: Andrew G. Marshall
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780995540316
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 272
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It's good to take stock from time to time but at forty or fifty-something you can find that you're dissatisfied and bored. The temptation is to take a wrecking ball to your life but that risks alienating your partner and your children - without necessarily ending up any happier. Just gritting your teeth, doesn't work either - anyway, you've already tried that! Fortunately, there's another way to become fulfilled and lead the life that's right for you (rather than what your parents, society or anybody else thinks). If you're fed up with life, questioning whether you should stay married or thinking you might be better off with someone else, marital therapist Andrew G. Marshall has a radical idea to help you move from the first half to the second of your life without messing everything up: it's not a midlife crisis, it's an opportunity. He explains in part one: The three central questions you need to answer (and why everybody else is distracting themselves and avoiding facing them). How to put what's happening now into the context of your whole life journey. How to avoid the tempting short-cuts that cause more heartache in the long term. Why if you pass this midlife test everything is up from here. Why you're not in the wrong. If it's your partner who has turned grumpy, critical and blames you for everything, you will be feeling alone and full of despair. Don't worry, in part two of this compassionate book, Andrew G. Marshall explains: A whole new vocabulary for discussing the midlife crisis without putting your partner's back up. What's really going on in your partner's head. What causes depression and how to help. Five killer replies to the blocks that stops you talking properly about your marriage. Why you're not in the wrong. Together you will learn three new skills that will either change your marriage into the connected, fulfilling and loving relationship of which you've always dreamed or help you separate amicably and be great coparents together.support in coping with the crises, but what about other forms of coping? ... While this might have relieved one source of immediate stress it would do little to handle the emotional origins of his mid-life crisis. If we look back over ...
Author: Edmund A. Sherman
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9781438419848
Category: Psychology
Page: 267
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This book contributes to an understanding of the nature of mid-life transitions and crises by focusing on the unique personal meaning of the transitional experience for the individual. There is an implicit structure to the way in which such a transition is experienced by the individual, and this can be made explicit by the techniques and methods of the approach outlined and illustrated in the book. The value of making this structure explicit is that it enables us to understand and assess the nature and dimensions of the transition, whether or not it will reach crisis proportions, and to assess possible intervention strategies. Meaning in Mid-Life Transitions should be of interest to human service practitioners as well as teachers and students of human development and behavior. It evidences an integrative approach and structural framework, including a series of in-depth clinical and research studies.REFERENCES Hern ́andez-Guzm ́an, L. & S ́anchez-Sosa, J. J. (2005). ... Even if life changes are made in midlife, they do not always involve a crisis; they may instead involve careful planning, decisions, and choices about new ...
Author: Irving B. Weiner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470170274
Category: Psychology
Page: 480
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Psychologists, researchers, teachers, and students need complete and comprehensive information in the fields of psychology and behavioral science. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume Three has been the reference of choice for almost three decades. This indispensable resource is updated and expanded to include much new material. It uniquely and effectively blends psychology and behavioral science. The Fourth Edition features over 1,200 entries; complete coverage of DSM disorders; and a bibliography of over 10,000 citations. Readers will benefit from up-to-date and authoritative coverage of every major area of psychology.S. PIRITUAL. M. ATURITY. The Book of Revelation features a spectacular scene in which countless figures dressed in white ... If midlife throwsus into crisis, however, and if thecrisis spins tofull tilt,our desperation maythreaten to ...
Author: Rosemarie Carfagna
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9781587683206
Category: RELIGION
Page: 108
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This book helps the reader in midlife crisis frame his/her experience in spiritual/contemplative terms, and thereby provides a wider context in which to understand and eventually accept it.PLEASE DON'T HAVE A MIDLIFE CRISIS Elliott Jaques, “Death and the Midlife Crisis,” in Gabriele Junkers, ed., ... “If you're constantly faced with news that's depressing—you know, off in some rural area in Africa—it is really tough.
Author: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101622971
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 400
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A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.According to Levinson, the midlife transition may trigger a crisis—the midlife crisis. ... She believes that both men and women can experience great success and joy if they identify meaningful goals and pursue them wholeheartedly.
Author: Jeffrey S. Nevid
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470383629
Category: Psychology
Page: 624
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A long-respected standard in the psychology of adjustment, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, Eleventh Edition has been thoroughly updated and contemporized to provide students the ability to reflect on how psychology relates to the lives we live and the roles that psychology can play in helping us with the challenges we face. Authors Jeffrey Nevid and Spencer Rathus explore the many applications of psychological concepts and principles used to meet the challenges of daily life, while encouraging students to apply concepts to themselves through active learning exercises, self-assessment questionnaires, and journaling exercises.Then I thought to myself this is ridiculous; this isn't life or death, if s just a game. ... MIDLIFE TRANSITION AND CRISIS Although the terms midlife transition and midlife crisis have become part of the pop culture, they are definable ...
Author: Calvin A. Colarusso
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306442858
Category: Psychology
Page: 220
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Developmental theory is the essence of any psychodynamic psychother apy, and certainly of psychoanalysis. It is through an understanding of progressive life events, and the way these events relate to associated biological and social events, that we come to understand both psycho pathology and psychological strengths. For a long time we have needed a clinically oriented book that surveys normal development in both childhood and adulthood. This book should be particularly helpful to all mental health professionals whose daily work requires a constant awareness and appraisal of devel opmental issues. Dr. Colarusso has integrated and summarized a tremen dous amount of theoretical, empirical, and clinical material in a format that makes it come alive through clinical examples. This book should be of great interest to all students of human behav ior as well as to seasoned clinicians. SHERWYN M. WOODS, M. D. , PH. D. vii Preface Each year as I gave a lecture series on child and adult development to the adult and child psychiatric residents at the University of California at San Diego, someone inevitably would ask, "Is there a book that I could understand that has all of this information in it?" I would reply that I did not know of any single source, but I could refer the person to many articles and books on development.Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club Gay Courter, Pat Gaudette. For a while Lauren avoided Sunday services because she didn't know what to say when the older ladies asked , " Where's that handsome guy of yours today ?
Author: Gay Courter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399528822
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 276
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Explains how to deal with a husband's mid-life crisis, covering topics including infidelity, thrill-seeking behavior, and financial irresponsibility, and deciding whether or not to continue with the relationship.Professor of Sociology Michael S Kimmel, Amy B Aronson Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson ... Beliefs in midlife crisis may partially hinge on confirmation bias, whereby a single case or a few cases of the expected behavior confirm the ...
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9781576077740
Category: Reference
Page: 892
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Alphabetically arranged original essays explore such topics as historical movements, race and masculinity, marriage, and aging.