MIDLIFE READING

 

TRANSITIONS: MAKING SENSE OF LIFE’S CHANGES

By William Bridges

Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 2nd Edition, 1996

 

NOON TO NIGHTFALL: A JOURNEY THROUGH MIDLIFE AND AGEING

By M. D’Apice

Melbourne: Dove Publications, 1995

 

MIDLIFE MYTHS: ISSUES, FINDINGS, AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS

By S. Hunter and M. Sundel

Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1989

 

THE SEASONS OF A MAN’S LIFE: Midlife Adulthood (pp 23-33), The Midlife Transition (pp 191-279)

By Daniel J. Levinson

New York: Ballantine Books, 1978

 

UNDERSTANDING MEN’S PASSAGES: DISCOVERING THE NEW MAP OF MEN’S LIVES

By G. Sheedy

New York: Random House, 1998

 

LIFE AFTER YOUTH: MAKING SENSE OF ONE MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE TRANSITION AT MIDLIFE.

By Sean Sammon

New York: Alba House, 1997

 

*THE SURVIVAL PAPERS: ANATOMY OF A MIDLIFE CRISIS

By Darryl Sharp

Toronto: Inner City Books, 1998                 $23.95

 

*UNDERSTANDING THE MIDLIFE CRISIS

By Peter Connor

Sun Books, 1981.                      $ 12.95

 

*MIDLIFE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE

By Janice Brewi & Anne Brennan

New York: Cross Road Publishing , 1989     $21.90

 

*NAVIGATING MIDLIFE

By E.S. Corlett & N.B. Millner

CP Books Palo Alto, 1993                $29.95

 

*Above four asterisked books can be obtained from the Institute for Type Development at Lidcombe, Sydney, Ph (02) 9749 1369

 

 

SOME RECENT ARTICLES

 

A Spirituality for the Second Half of Life by Joan Chittister osb, in SPIRITUALITY Vol 5, No. 25 July/August 1999 and Vol 5, No. 26 September/October 1999 (in 2 parts)

Discussion of some of the characteristics of a spirituality for the second half of life.

 

The Last Dreamers by Brendan Hoban, in THE  FURROW 49/6 (June 1998) 339-346

An Irish priest ordained in the early 70s reflects on his twenty-five years of priesthood.

 

Midlife Infatuations by Levo Lynn in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 19/4 (Winter 1998) 14-18

Exploration of the dangers and the values for celibates in relationships involving erotic feelings.

 

Priesthood in Transition by Stephen J. Rossetti, in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 21/2 (SUMMER 2000) 29-34

Proposes a four-step process for priests today, particularly those who have fallen into a paralysing “victim stance”.

 

August  2000

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