![]() ![]() My second criticism is that the fifties decade gets only one chapter, and the book ends there. Like many others, became disillusioned with my career and wanted to find 'something more' but I could not start my own business as a second career as Sheehy's high fliers did. I am not a high flyer and wanted to hear about Joe Average and how he solved the life crises. One gets the impression that everyone is a manager of a big business or talented in some way. My main criticism is that Sheehy constantly gives examples of the life stories of the rich and successful. ![]() While based on academic research the book is very readable and easily understandable. ![]() It can be greatly reassuring to find that others are quietly suffering too, and even more so to find that they share the same problems. Most of us suffer times of uncertainty, predictable crises, that are 'normal' in human development. If you have ever found yourself struggling with your problems and feeling quite alone and abnormal this is the book for you. This book owes a fair bit to Erikson, as a quick glance at the bibliography will reveal, but Sheehy has done her own statistical research and it is fair to say that the work has it's own voice. The psychologist Erik Erikson developed his own psychosocial stages of development which extend into old age. We are all familiar with Freud's psychosexual stages of development which end in with the pinnacle of adulthood, but during the Twentieth Century psychologists came to see that personal development does not end in adulthood. ![]()
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