Midlife: Problems and Solutions: A Jungian Perspective on the Midlife Crisis

This book is the distillation of the professional wisdom of Renata Symonds (1913 – 2007), a London-based Jungian psychotherapist.

She deals with the perennial problems of humankind that may particularly become evident at the threshold of the second half of life: finding meaning in one’s existence; facing conflicts in work and marriage; dealing with depression, loneliness, and sexuality; and fear of death.

These great themes are explored from the perspective of the writer’s experience in help...