Updating Midlife

Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero, PsyD is a clinical, training, and supervising psychoanalyst, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and co-coordinates the study group: Metapsychology of Midlife. She is the current executive president of Fundacion Travesia (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis). She is the co-author of the books 'Para comprender la mediana edad: historias de vida' and 'Mediana edad: estudios psicoanaliticos', as well as the author of numerous papers delivered at different national and international psychoanalytic congresses. Guillermo Julio Montero Psy.D. is a clinical, training and supervising psychoanalyst as well as a Magister in Psychoanalysis. He is a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He also teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and co-coordinates the Study Group: Metapsychology of Midlife. He is the President of Fundacion Travesia (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis). He is the author of 'La travesia por la mitad de la vida: exegesis psicoanalitica', as well as the co-author of the books 'Para comprender la mediana edad: historias de vida' and 'Mediana edad: estudios psicoanaliticos', and the author of numerous papers delivered at different national and international psychoanalytic congresses, several of them published at psychoanalytic magazines in Brazil, USA, Spain and Korea. Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger Psy.D. is a clinical psychoanalyst and associate member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and co-coordinates the Study Group: Metapsychology of Midlife. She is a member of Fundacion Travesia (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis), and the co-author of 'Mediana edad: estudios psicoanaliticos', as well as the author of numerous papers delivered at different national and international psychoanalytic congresses.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Midlife and finitude -- Interview with Christopher Bollas (England) -- Interview with Stefano Bolognini (Italy) -- Interview with Calvin Anthony Colarusso (USA) -- Interview with Franco de Masi (Italy) -- Interview with Cláudio Laks Eizirik (Brazil) -- The inevitable ordinary human suffering … -- Interview with Glen O. Gabbard (USA) -- Interview with Charles M. T. Hanly (Canada) -- Interview with Luis Kancyper (Argentina) -- Interview with Norberto Carlos Marucco (Argentina) -- Elements for a metapsychology about midlife -- Interview with Leo Rangell (USA) -- Answers to the questionnaire

Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives comes with an accompanying DVD.The DVD is available in both PAL and NTSC formats. Please specify which format you require when placing your order. If no format is specified we will supply PAL format.Please note the Ebook version of this title does not include the DVD content.The contributions to this book cover a range of specific areas: contributors' own definitions of midlife, and if the concept was something worthwhile discussing; if midlife could be regarded as a stage of development; if midlife could be understood through regular Freudian thinking; if they had personal ideas about midlife ensuing from the Freudian ones; if they had an explanation for a proper metapsychological understanding of midlife, and many more.'Going through what we know as midlife is - in the best case scenario - something which affects us all and is not without consequences. The outcome depends on an adequate working-through process resulting in creative possibilities or, sometimes, really worrying effects. The editors juxtapose their own developments - achieved over many years - with skilful interviews, conducted with some of the most renowned authors in contemporary psychoanalysis, inviting them to share and compare their ideas on the topic. In this way, they offer us a resource which is at the same time intellectually deep and pleasant, which will appeal to professionals as well as any reader who is interested in the subject.'- Abel Mario Fainstein, MD, Psychoanalyst, President of Latin America Psychoanalytic Federation, Ex-President of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association