Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time

Erikson, Joan M.; Erikson, Erik H.; Kivnick, Helen Q.

ISBN 10: 0393023591 / ISBN 13: 9780393023596

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393023591
• ISBN 13: 9780393023596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the past while remaining involved in the present. The authors begin this work with their theory of life's stages through old age. In Part two, they discuss their interviews with twenty-nine octogenarians, on whom life history data has been collected for over fifty years. Part three is a discussion of the life history of the protagonist in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries. In Part four, ""Old age in our society"", the authors offer suggestions for ""vital involvement."" Erik H. Erikson is winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

About the Author

A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Erik H. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field of psychoanalysis and human development.