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Passages
Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Sheehy, Gail Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, USA
Year Published: 1977 First Published: 1974
Pages: 560pp ISBN: 0-3-553-10306-7
Resource Type: Book
Gail Sheehy sketches a a road map of adult life.
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Table of Contents
Authors's Acknowledgments
Part One: MYSTERIES OF THE LIFE CYCLE
1. MADNESS AND METHOD
Is There Life After Youth?
2. PREDICTABLE CRISES OF ADULTHOOD
Two Couples, Two Generations - The Developmental Ladder
Part Two: PULLING UP ROOTS
3. BREAST TO BREAKAWAY
Our Merger and Seeker Selves - The Inner Custodian - Breaking Away From the Inner Custodian - A First Solo Flight
4. PLAYING IT TO THE BUST
5. "IF I'M LATE, START THE CRISIS WITHOUT ME"
Seeking an Idea to Believe In - Which Model, Hero, or Heroine to Copy? - "What Am I Going to Do with My Life?"
6. THE URGE TO MERGE
All You Need Is Love - The Piggyback Principle - Jailbreak Marriage - Openings - The Complete-Me Child - Compulsory Graffiti - The College Woman - Finding My "True Self"
7. BEGINNINGS OF THE COUPLE PUZZLE
Part Three: THE TRYING TWENTEIS
8. GETTING OFF TO A RUNNING START
I Should Be... - The Power of Illusions - One True Course in Life
9. THE ONE TRUE COUPLE
Going Through Changes...
10. WHY DO MEN MARRY?
Safety - To Fill Some Vacancy in Themselves - To Get Away from Home - Prestige or Practicality
11. WHY CAN'T A WOMAN BE MORE LIKE A MAN AND A MAN LESS LIKE A RACEHORSE?
The Bad Old Days - The Brave New Days - Fear of Success - Fear of Softness - Looking Past Our Noses
12. SNEAK PREVIEW: MEN AND WOMEN GROWING UP
The Responsive Man - The Initiating Woman
Part Four: PASSAGE TO THE THIRTIES
13. CATCH-30
Catch-30 and the Couple - The Testimonial Woman - Wive's Work - Closed-Dyad Disease - Rooting and Extending
14. THE COUPLE KNOT, THE SINGLE SPOT, THE REBOUND
The Couple Knot - The Single Spot - The Rebound
Part Five: BUT I'M UNIQUE
15. MEN'S LIFE PARTTERNS
The Transient - Locked In - The Wunderkind - Never-Married Men, Paranurturers, Latency Boys - Integrators
16. WOMEN'S LIFE PATTERNS
The Caregiver - The Nurturer Who Defers Achievement - The Achiever Who Defers Nurturing - Late-baby Superachievers - Integrators - Never-Married Women - Transients
Part Six: DEADLINE DECADE
17. SETTING OFF ON THE MIDLIFE PASSAGE
Seeing the Dark at the End of the Tunnel - Change in Time Sense - Change in Sense of Aliveness versus Stagnation - Change in Sense of Self and Other - De-Illusioning the Dream - Groping Toward Authenticity - From Disassembling to Reneal - Riding Out the Down Side
18. YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY
The Creative Crisis - The Spiritual Crisis - The Difference Between Midlife and Middle Age
19. THE AGE 35 SURVEY
The Crossroads for Women - The Re-potting of Priscilla Blum
20. THE AGE 40 CRUCIBLE
The Middle Manager - The Corporate Wunderkind - Letting Go of the Impossible Dream - The Joys of Caring - The Problems of Generativity - The Courage for a Career Change - The Turnaround
21. SWITCH-40s AND THE COUPLE
Correcting Disparities in the Dream - The Envied Wife - Where Have All the Children Gone? - Mother's Release from the Nest - The Second Wind of the Citizen-Soldier - The "Who's Crazy?" Argument - Whodunit?
22. THE SEXUAL DIAMOND
Facing the Facts of Male and Female Sexual Life Cycles - The Diverging Sexual Life Cycles - The Educated Male Orgasm - The Curious Ups and Downs of Testosterone - Mysteries of the Climacteric - Sex and Menopause
23. LIVING OUT THE FANTASY
The Change-of-Life Affair - Busting Out
24. LIVING OUT THE REALITY
Part Seven: RENEWAL
25. RENEWAL
New Veins of Energy - A No-Panic Approach to Physical Aging - Redefined Attitudes Toward Money, Religion and Death - Companionship or a Zest for Aloneness - Approval of Oneself at Last
NOTES AND SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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