Midlife : humanity's secret weapon /

"Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: killer whales, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and Homo sapiens. While the evolutionary purpose of the killer whale'...

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Main Author: Jamieson, Andrew (Psychotherapist) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mirefoot, Burneside, Kendal : Notting Hill Editions, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Eldership, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Jung's breakdown
  • Freud's repetition theory and Jung's concept of individuation
  • The mother and the amygdala
  • The eye of the storm
  • The shadow: a powerful but turbulent ally
  • Two American presidents
  • Marie Curie: the sister of Prometheus
  • Crisis, creativity and the work of Heinz Kohut
  • Synchronicity and the gravitational field of authentic need
  • Conclusion.