Beschreibung:
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.
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