The Human Elder in Nature, Culture, and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367308360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

David Gutmann

Opis

This book describes the theory of the "Parental Imperative"—the engine of human development in early and later adulthood—aging as a human adaptation, a legitimate life stage, rather than the grim prelude to death, focusing on the clinical perspective.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Credits -- The Country of Old Men: Cross-Cultural Studies in the Psychology of Later Life -- Dependency, Illness, and Survival Among Navajo Men -- A Comparative Study of Ego Functioning in Geriatric Patients -- Alternatives to Disengagement: Aging Among the Highland Druze -- Aging and the Parental Imperative -- A Cross-Cultural View of Adult Life in the Extended Family -- The Premature Gerontocracy: Themes of Aging and Death in the Youth Culture -- The Subjective Politics of Power: The Dilemma of Post-Superego Man -- Oedipus and the Aging Male: A Comparative Perspective -- Culture and Mental Health in Later Life, Revisited -- The Human Father and the Masculine Life Cycle -- Psychological Development and Pathology in Later Adulthood

O autorze

David Gutmann is the director of the Older Adult Program, Division of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School and professor in the School of Education at Northwestern University. He is the author of Reclaimed Powers: Men and Women in Later Life.