VITAL INVOLVEMENT IN OLD AGE: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time

Erikson, Erik H; Joan M Erikson; Helen Q Kivnik

ISBN 10: 0393023591 / ISBN 13: 9780393023596

Published by Norton, New York, 1985

About this Item

Inscribed by Erik and Joan Erikson; 352 pages. Hardbound in fine condition in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VITAL INVOLVEMENT IN OLD AGE: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time
• Publisher: Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393023591
• ISBN 13: 9780393023596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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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.