The Middle Passage
Subtitle: from misery to meaning in midlife
By: James Hollis.
Series: Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts
Publisher: Inner City Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780919123601
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Middle age -- Psychological aspects; Jungian psychology
Description: Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? 

The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality.

The Middle Passage addresses the following issues: 
How did we acquire our original sense of self? What are the changes that herald the Middle Passage? How does one revision the sense of self? What is the relationship between Jung's concept of individuation and our commitment to others? What attitudes and behavior support individuation and help us move from misery to meaning?

This book shows how we may travel the Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

--back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-123) and index.