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Life Begins at 40: The Demographic and Cultural Roots of the Midlife Crisis

By Mark Jackson — 2020

In 1965, the psychoanalyst and social scientist Elliott Jaques introduced a term, the ‘midlife crisis’, that continues to structure Western understandings and experiences of middle age.

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How Spirituality Affects Mental Health

Understanding the difference between a spiritual crisis and a mental illness is important to get to the root of the problem.

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Dan Brennan
2021
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When Spiritual Crises Show Up in the Mental Health System

Spiritual “emergencies” require understanding from mental health professionals.

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Robert T. Muller
2022
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It’s Perfectly OK to Call a Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ and Here’s Why

We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.

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Brittany Wong
2019
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What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture

A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.

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Jennifer Miller
2022
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Have You Ever Felt Like an Outsider?

Being an outsider can cause culture shock. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

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Natalie Proulx
2019
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Identity and Neurodiversity

Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?

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International Bipolar Foundation
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“Which One Is the Real Me?”—A Veteran’s Transition and Identity Crisis

Like most veterans, I found the transition from military to civilian life a struggle—a tougher struggle than I had anticipated. For me, I found that one of my trickier struggles was with my identity.

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Joshua Plummer
2022
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The Second Identity Crisis: How to Deal in a Smart Way with a New Phase of Life

One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual.

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Prudy Gourguechon
2019
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Are You Having an Identity Crisis?

Here are four key ways to identify your identity.

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Susan Krauss Whitbourne
2012
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Parenting a Third Culture Kid

Third Culture Kids (TCKs): Children who don’t identify with a single culture, but have a more complicated identity forged from their experiences as global citizens.

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Elke Robshaw
2015
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