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Aging & identity

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Happy Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention—A Practical Guide to Planning and Enjoying the Retirement You’ve Earned

Retirement can bring immense fulfillment but also can be a source of stress, especially today. Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention uses psychological research and a unique visual style of infographics and illustrations to provide readers with a retirement roadmap just right for them.

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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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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman’s later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter your age” (Essence).

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FindCenterPresume not that I am the thing I was.

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Why the Concept of Retirement Is Destructive and Needs to Be Replaced

As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.

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Are You Afraid to Retire?

Recognize the emotional fear factors to make the leap.

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