Beschreibung:
'Psychologists have mapped out developmental stages for the first fifteen to twenty years; but thereafter life is a blank. Half a century of adult life remains, psychologically speaking, an unchartered waste.' Frank Musgrove focuses on the question 'Can adults change?' and challenges the still widely-held view that adult life is static.
Author's note. 1. Aspects of Change in Adult Life 2. Orientations to the Centre: Passing and Coming Out 3. Becoming a Parson: Change of Life-Plan and the Voice of God 4. Artists: Precarious Identities in Private Worlds 5. A Home for the Disabled: A Change of Tense 6. The World of the Blind: A Supernormality 7. The Homosexual as Stranger 8. Dervishes in Dorsetshire: Re-alignment with Reality 9. Demons and Devotees: Hare Krishna and the Transformation of Consciousness 10. Can Adults Really Change? Notes to Chapters. Index.