Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging

Cohler, Bertram J.

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“…We study the personal narratives of biracial youth to understand how they talk about arriving at these new self-identifications. The personal narrative is an attempt to make sense of the self through time (Cohler, 1998) by organizing experience into an understandable story of the past, present, and future (Ricoeur, 1984). Through the workings of plot, the personal narrative configures the me into a story that conveys a sense of identity (McAdams, 1996).…”

Section: The Relational Emplotment Of Mixed Racial Identity Brian Sch...mentioning

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The Relational Emplotment of Mixed Racial Identity.

Schiff¹,

O'Neill²

2007

The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships.

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Section: The Relational Emplotment Of Mixed Racial Identity Brian Sch...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relational Emplotment of Mixed Racial Identity.

Schiff¹,

O'Neill²

2007

The Meaning of Others: Narrative Studies of Relationships.

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Men's Perceptions of Family during the Retirement Transition

Nuttman‐Shwartz

2007

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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This study provides a phenomenological description of pre-and postretirement perceptions of family and their impact on adjustment to retirement. The study is qualitative and employs interviews as a means of collecting life stories and life scenarios of men on the eve of their retirement transition. The findings corroborate that retirement is a family transition. The most important results shed light on retirees' loneliness and need for support. Supportive preretirement interventions are recommended. In addition, the results showed family perceptions' contribution to postretirement adjustment. Thus, in order to help the retirees to accept their retirement transition, it suggests that the preretirement intervention should focus on the family as a whole, especially when retirees plan their future.

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Amplified Comment: The Triangular Relationships between the Holocaust, Aging, and Narrative Gerontology

Lomranz

2005

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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The three articles by de Vries et al, Schiff, and Suedfeld et al. 1 illuminate and enrich as well as challenge. They address the most basic questions about human nature and coping with extreme adversity, loss, and growth. Inherent in each of the three articles are three core domains of life stories (including life events), aging, and the Holocaust. Together these form a triad to be comprehended triangularly. Triangulation signifies having access to different sources or works of research so that one's perception and comprehension of phenomena-approached from different angles-can be compared, interrelated, understood, and justified. The three studies provide us with an opportunity to explore triangularly the issues of life stories, aging, and the Holocaust, since they approach Holocaust survivors from different as well as common angles. My leading questions in reading the articles are: Do Holocaust survivors age differently (a question only covertly embedded in the three articles)? Aging requires much of individuals coping with losses, finding meaning, adjusting to retirement, reconceiving time and life lived, and facing death. Will survivors be able to cope with such developmental demands? Or given their past traumatic experiences, their assumed inability to mourn and low hedonic potential (Krystal, 1988), their vulnerability (Lomranz, 1990), possible postponed or late-onset of PTSD and depression (Dasberg, 2001; Krell, 1990), will old age reactivate the Holocaust experience in a destructive manner, making it difficult for survivors to cope constructively with the phenomena of aging? 255

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Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

The Relational Emplotment of Mixed Racial Identity.

The Relational Emplotment of Mixed Racial Identity.

Men's Perceptions of Family during the Retirement Transition

Amplified Comment: The Triangular Relationships between the Holocaust, Aging, and Narrative Gerontology

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