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What does it really mean to be a grown up in today's world? We assume that once we get it together with the right job marry the right person have children and buy a home all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we've made realise our limitations and feel stuck - commonly known as the midlife crisis. Jungian psychoanalyst James Hollis believes it is only in the second half of life that we can truly come to know who we are and thus create a life that has meaning. In FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE Hollis explores the ways we can grow and evolve to fully become ourselves when the traditional roles of adulthood aren't quite working for us revealing a new way of uncovering and embracing our authentic selves. Offering wisdom to anyone facing a career that no longer seems fulfilling a long-term relationship that has shifted or family transitions that raise issues of ageing and mortality FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE provides a reassuring message and a crucial bridge across this critical passage of adult development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73321 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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inspiring
a book written by a very grounded analyst, while not being a self help book at all, is deeply inspiring and helpful. Many books written by analysts are airy fairy and intellectual, this writer has the true gift of a broad spectrum of knowledge which he seems to have digested and then writeis lucidly and clearly about concepts that many people find unintelligible. weel worth the effort to work along with the book.