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‘Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself/In dark woods, the right road lost.’ So wrote the 14th Century Poet Dante in his 35th year, words often cited as encapsulating the mid-life crisis. Centuries later, Carl Jung posited the psychological imperative of mid-life transition, asserting that ‘we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning.’ Mid-life transition is not technically a mental health diagnosis, though its symptoms may come under the heading of adjustment disorder. It can slip the net of precise definition and yet various thinkers have identified a cluster of common hallmarks. Its very existence may be disputed, yet it resonates with many people’s experience. Some of these people may be our clients. This course will look at the landscape of mid-life transition: the concept; definitions of its key features and presenting issues; relevance to contemporary context. We will look at a model of understanding that emerges as a way of containing and working with midlife transition in counselling. We will explore the therapeutic task facing the mid-olescent, in responding to this life-stage creatively. We will also look at the distinctions between a mid-life crisis versus transition, and to what extent the mid-life lens offers a useful approach in facilitating work with clients.
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