272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Chronicling the evolution of David Gutmann's cross-cultural, empirical studies on which his developmental theories of aging are based, this volume reveals how descriptions of the developmental sequences (as they show themselves in older men and women) lead to identification of the psychological forces that drive these processes across the years. This book of new and previously published work first... Read more
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
Biography
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.
