Holding on or Letting Go: Men and Career Change at Midlife

ISBN: 9780029234808

定价: 90.00

内容简介

What are the causes of the much discussedmale midlife
crisis?Is age the only determining factor7
Whyand in what waysdo questions of selfimage and life
goals reassed themselves at midlife?
How do individuals adaptor fail to adaptto the midlife pas
sage--and to the dramatic career changes that often emerge
from it?
In this probing analysis of a group of lawyersengineersaca-
demicsand businessmen who Ieft established professions to
pursue careers in the creative artsSamuel Osherson goes be-
yond simplistic explanations of the midlife crisisThe book
places the radicaI career changes of these men squarely in the
context of their total life situations and adult developmental ex-
periences
Osherson found that all of the men had undergone selfreveal-
ing experiencesbut they differed in the degree to which they
listened and responded to these experiencesDrawing on a
careful ly worked out model of adult developmentthe author ex-
plains why some people confidently confront changes in their
lives while others seem to be less able to experience transition
Richly illustrated with excerpts frOm interviewsHolding On or
Letting Go links the tasks and challenges of midlife with those
of other points in the life cycleOshersonS original and sophis-
ticated analysis illuminates the crucial factors--career selec-
tionmarital choiceparentaI relationshipsand adolescent ex-
periences--underlying the difficult questions that are posed
anewwith increased urgencyat m Jdl ife