The human elder in nature, culture, and society / David Gutmann.

By: Gutmann, David, 1925- [author]
Language: English Series: Lives in contextPublisher: Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, c1997Description: xxii, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813329736; 0813329744 (pbk.)Subject(s): Older people -- Psychology | Older people -- Cross-cultural studiesDDC classification: 305.26 LOC classification: HQ1061 | .G865 1997Online resources: Publisher description
Contents:
Foreword / Harvey Peskin -- 1. The Country of Old Men: Cross-Cultural Studies in the Psychology of Later Life -- 2. Dependency, Illness, and Survival Among Navajo Men -- 3. A Comparative Study of Ego Functioning in Geriatric Patients -- 4. Alternatives to Disengagement: Aging Among the Highland Druze -- 5. Aging and the Parental Imperative -- 6. A Cross-Cultural View of Adult Life in the Extended Family -- 7. The Premature Gerontocracy: Themes of Aging and Death in the Youth Culture -- 8. The Subjective Politics of Power: The Dilemma of Post-Superego Man -- 9. Oedipus and the Aging Male: A Comparative Perspective -- 10. Culture and Mental Health in Later Life, Revisited -- 11. The Human Father and the Masculine Life Cycle -- 12. Psychological Development and Pathology in Later Adulthood.
Summary: Chronicling the evolution of David Gutmann's cross-cultural, empirical studies on which his developmental theories of aging are based, this volume reveals how descriptions of the developmental sequences (as they show themselves in older men and women) lead to identification of the psychological forces that drive these processes across the years. This book of new and previously published work first reports on the research that buttressed this more hopeful view of aging as a period of growth and then sets forth the broad, unifying ideas that came out of the empirical work. This is a text for gerontologists, for all students of human development, and for all thoughtful readers who are concerned with the great themes of the human life-cycle - including their own.
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Includes index

Includes bibliographical references

Foreword / Harvey Peskin --
1. The Country of Old Men: Cross-Cultural Studies in the Psychology of Later Life --
2. Dependency, Illness, and Survival Among Navajo Men --
3. A Comparative Study of Ego Functioning in Geriatric Patients --
4. Alternatives to Disengagement: Aging Among the Highland Druze --
5. Aging and the Parental Imperative --
6. A Cross-Cultural View of Adult Life in the Extended Family --
7. The Premature Gerontocracy: Themes of Aging and Death in the Youth Culture --
8. The Subjective Politics of Power: The Dilemma of Post-Superego Man --
9. Oedipus and the Aging Male: A Comparative Perspective --
10. Culture and Mental Health in Later Life, Revisited --
11. The Human Father and the Masculine Life Cycle --
12. Psychological Development and Pathology in Later Adulthood.

Chronicling the evolution of David Gutmann's cross-cultural, empirical studies on which his developmental theories of aging are based, this volume reveals how descriptions of the developmental sequences (as they show themselves in older men and women) lead to identification of the psychological forces that drive these processes across the years. This book of new and previously published work first reports on the research that buttressed this more hopeful view of aging as a period of growth and then sets forth the broad, unifying ideas that came out of the empirical work. This is a text for gerontologists, for all students of human development, and for all thoughtful readers who are concerned with the great themes of the human life-cycle - including their own.

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