The seasons of a man's life

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Here, from the researchers who actually discovered and mapped it, is the first complete, detailed, authoritative account of the great hidden pattern that underlies and shapes every man's life. This book offers direct access to the results of the groundbreaking study by Yale Professor of Psychology Daniel Levinson and his team of psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, the study that first demonstrated the existence of adult development—how human beings continue to change, throughout their lifetimes, according to an age-linked timetable. Levinson's findings—based in part on intensive, long-term interviewing of 40 selected men (10 executives, 10 biologists, 10 factory workers and 10 novelists)—have already created a stir in professional circles, and received public attention as the foundation of Gail Sheehy's Passages. Through the publication of The Seasons of a Man's Life, the findings are destined to have a far wider influence on the way men view themselves, and live their... Tovább

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Here, from the researchers who actually discovered and mapped it, is the first complete, detailed, authoritative account of the great hidden pattern that underlies and shapes every man's life. This book offers direct access to the results of the groundbreaking study by Yale Professor of Psychology Daniel Levinson and his team of psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, the study that first demonstrated the existence of adult development—how human beings continue to change, throughout their lifetimes, according to an age-linked timetable. Levinson's findings—based in part on intensive, long-term interviewing of 40 selected men (10 executives, 10 biologists, 10 factory workers and 10 novelists)—have already created a stir in professional circles, and received public attention as the foundation of Gail Sheehy's Passages. Through the publication of The Seasons of a Man's Life, the findings are destined to have a far wider influence on the way men view themselves, and live their lives.
Any man reading this book will have the extraordinary experience of seeing his own feelings—sometimes previously unrecognized feelings—reflected with remarkable accuracy in Levinson's description of the specific developmental periods. From the Early Adult Transition (ages 17 to 22) to the Mid-Life Transition (40 to 45) to the Age Fifty Transition (50 to 55) and beyond, each period is closely identified with typical danger and stress points, ambitions, dreams, successes and failures. The timing and nature of emotional crises (not only the famous midlife crisis of the early forties, but also the often equally profound crises that can occur at other ages), the developmental reasons for marriage and career problems (including surprising insights into why men frequently change jobs—and sometimes wives—at particular stages of life), the importance of "mentors" and "mentoring" to the process of growing up—all these and more are vividly illuminated by reference to the great developmental timetable. And Levinson shows, in the most compelling detail, that whatever a man's special- life experiences are, he nevertheless passes through the same
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