Crossroads at Midlife Your Aging Parents, Your Emotions, and Your Self

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)

Reviews:

• Unlike most other books on caring for an aging parent, this one emphasizes the opportunities for middle-aged caregivers to grow and change as they negotiate the demands of aging parents and, often at the same time, those of the increasingly independent adolescent and young adult children....[i]nsightful. Public libraries will want to purchase it for the many baby boomers now facing these problems and seeking guidance.
  —Library Journal November 15, 2004
• [A]n informative and insightful look at midlife....With her emphasis on midlife as a time for personal enlightenment and growth, Praver encourages readers to embrace this phase of their lives.
  —Booklist October 15, 2004
• Crossroads at Midlife takes an honest unflinching look at the emotional upheaval that men and women confront at this critical juncture in their own lives...Dr.Frances Cohen Praver's inspirational message of embarking on a journey of exploration and self-transformation in order to create the remaining years with meaning is based on her personal experience....Powerful emotions and inner conflicts evoked by aging parents leave caretakers feeling torn....The author shares therapy tools to help readers take control of inner states so that they can empathize with parents and themselves. Then they can better provide care with kindness and compassion.
  —The Leader 2004

• Endorsement From Roberta Jellinek, Ph.D.,
  Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist, private practice
  New York City: Dr. Praver informatively presents complex ideas about our interactions with people, and particularly our aging parents, without compromising the integrity of the theoretical concepts. Her many case examples are lively, evocative and her writing style is suitable to both a lay and professional audience.
• Endorsement From Gladys Guarton,
  Faculty and Supervisor
  Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
  Adelphi University: Interacting with our aging parents, and/or with our children as their aging parents, has become a quite universal life passage, still largely unexplored in the psychological literature. Dr. Praver's book discusses it from the point of view of contemporary psychoanalysis,...it would be a valuable companion to anyone navigating through the difficulties of aging within significant intergenerational relationships.
• Endorsement From Julia A. Becker, M.D.,
  Practicing Board Certified Psychiatrist
  Long Island, New York: Dr. Praver delivers an informed and personal view of what psychology and psychiatry can offer.... Praver demystifies the process of psychotherapy and simplifies psychoanalysis, in a realistic unassuming manner for a lay public. Yet the same understandable chapters also deliver fertile, sophisticated insights for students and practicing clinicians in the field.
• Endorsement From Robert Reich, M.D.,
  Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  New York: Many of us will have to care for our aging parents while contending with the reality that we too are growing old. In [this] insightful book, Dr. Praver describes our personal and spiritual enlightenment as we reverse caretaking roles with our parents.
• Endorsement From Bernie Siegel, M.D.,
  author of Help Me to Heal and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Read this book and learn how to save your life by living with the knowledge that your time is limited. It will help you to find your chocolate ice cream and live out your life consuming it.
• Endorsement From Virginia F. Sendor,
  co-author of Hospice and Palliative Care: Questions and Answers: By using gripping case histories to provide invaluable insights, Dr. Cohen Praver encourages the reader to move beyond the crossroads of stress and heightened trauma--and use one's 'gift of time' to embrace the road that is positive and life-affirming.
• Endorsement From Yehuda Nir, M.D.,
  author of The Lost Childhood and Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
  Cornell University Medical School: A highly sophisticated, insightful self-help book on how to deal with your aging parents and your aging self. It helps you to understand who you are.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• My Story
• Getting Your House in Order
• Role Reversal
• Diverse Role Demands
• Emotions Evoked
• Dark Feelings in the Spotlight
• Guilt, Guilt, and More Guilt
• Caring for Yourself
• Problems from the Past
• Unfinished Family Business
• The Burden Is on You
• Long Distance Caring
• Handle with Care
• The Setting Sun

PDF Catalogs:

Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf