Psychoanalysis of Aging and Maturity: The Concept of Maturescence

ISBN-13: 9780367218379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 144 str.

Guillermo Julio Montero

Opis

As developing countries increasingly confront the issues of an aging population, this important book identifies the key period in the life cycle in which changes to the body, as well as concomitant psychological developments, result in the entering of a new phase of life, maturescence.

Spis treści

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Glossary;  1. Mid-life: steps to be taken before the introduction of a new concept;  2. Psychoanalysis of maturescence: the onset of middle age and beyond;  3. The expression of maturescence in dreams; 4. Nymphomaniac despair;  5. A reunion party;  6. Different understandings of maturescence;  7. The mythical cycle of the hero (including Freud?);  8. Background;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Guillermo Julio Montero is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, President of Fundación Travesía (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis), Chair of the IPA Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Aging Committee, as well as the author of several books and frequent deliverer at international psychoanalytical congresses.