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For all ages
The title says it all...this book shows you in simple terms and easy to follow instructions the path to flexibility..strength and inner peace.I hope to see more books and maybe videos by Sifu Phil.Truly a great teacher. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Body, Mind & Spirit    3. Consumer Health    4. Exercise    5. Magick Studies    6. Martial Arts - Taichi    7. New Age    8. Tai chi for older people   

Subjects:  1. Alzheimer's Disease    2. Caregiving    3. Eldercare    4. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    5. Health Care Delivery    6. Health Services For Older Adults    7. Health/Fitness    8. Healthy Living    9. Long-term care    10. Medical    11. Nursing - Gerontology    12. Patients    13. Diseases & disorders    14. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Subjects:  1. Developmental - Child    2. Developmental - Lifespan Development    3. Psychology    4. Social Science    5. Social Work    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Human reproduction, growth & development    9. Social Science / Social Work   

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Blank Books / Diaries / Memory Books    3. Personal Growth - General    4. Self-Help    5. Gift books    6. Popular psychology   

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Writing and the arrow of time
This is a truly wonderful book, from which I have received many inputs for my own scholarly endeavours. Here I would just like to point out what is probably a slip of the keyboard, on p. 211 of the English edition. In the formula "'before' to the left of 'after'", occurring twice, in the first occurrence 'left' should presumably be 'right'. Writing from the right to left, as Israelis do, does indeed seem to suggest a different direction of the flow of time.

Evaluation of Our Real Memories
Every psychiatrist has some quick tests to check on how your memory is working: reciting digits forward and backward, recalling the presidents sequentially, remembering three objects after three minutes, and so on.Such functions of memory are important, but they are not what we think of as real, personal memory, the subjective recall of what has gone on in our lives, the family reunions, childhood joys and traumas, successive homes, and so on.These stored personal experiences form our "autobiographical memory."It has only been known as such for about twenty years, basically because the other types of memory (like digit recall) have been more easily subject to psychological testing.The autobiographical memory is the main subject of essays in _Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past_ (Cambridge University Press) by Douwe Draaisma (translated from the Dutch by Arnold and Erica Pomerans).There are surprisingly few hard answers in this book.In writing about the near-death experience, for instance, Draaisma says that examining the hypotheses that might explain it makes clear that "... all they amount to is a handful of conjectures, a few statistical links and suggestive analogies."Nonetheless, our autobiographical memories are such an integral part of ourselves that it is fascinating to learn how scientists have been trying to explain just how this vital part of personality operates, and how much of the memory capacity that we take for granted is still mysterious and beyond even initial probes.
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Subjects:  1. Cognitive Psychology    2. Developmental - Lifespan Development    3. General    4. Psychology    5. Memory    6. Popular psychology    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Wonderful writer, eloquent and profound
I'm amazed at the way Mr. Hollis can phrase something that my soul has understood on some level, but never been able to put into words.He has an incredible understanding of the human concition, and calls upon us to ask the hard questions.This book is particularly meaningful to me, as I find myself in the middle of my life, transitioning into a new consciousness of, forand about myself and the world around me.I'm studying to become a therapist, and Jung's ideas resonate with me.I'm so glad I found this book!Many thanks to Dr. Hollis.I hope one day I may be able to attend one of his lectures.

Digging deeply for buried treasure
As with his previous books, James Hollis offers no easy answers, no magic formula for happiness, no 10 or 12 or 20 simple steps -- which explains the disappointment of some previous reviewers, I guess, who obviously wanted the hard work done for them. But isn't that one of the most pernicious illusions we have to shed, if we truly want to find personal meaning? We have to accept that *we've* got to do the digging, the discovering, the accepting. Even if we have helpful guides along the way, in the end it's up to us, since an adult is ultimately responsible for his/her life.
Relevant for anyone who wrestles with the meaning of his/her life
From the title, it seems that the book is mainly for middle aged people maybe 40 to 65 years old.I just finished this wonderfully insightful book and only wish I had read it in my 20's when I started my serious soul searching, mind wracking and heart breaking regarding this life I was thrust into. In a very readable and accessible manner, Mr. Hollis clearly points out signposts we probably all have seen but maybe either brushed some of them aside mistakenly in our confusion or were just too overwhelmed to see them for what they were. Here, in the cold light of day, he presents Jungian concepts coupled with actual experiences and examples to drive home points that soon seem obvious. That is how I identify a good teacher and/or writer: he makes it look obvious and easy. Make no mistake even to the extent this book clarifies a lot in it's presentation, the work is still all there for you to do and it is not going to be easy. It is a labor of love and life to live this life and to do so with optimal meaning which doesn't always correspond with optimal enjoyment or happiness but as you'll see, once one's life is full of meaning, the rest will follow on it's own as is appropriate. This book is a treasure trove of valuable insight to anyone who sees more to life than making money, having power etc., etc. until death takes it all away. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adulthood    2. Aging    3. Developmental - Adulthood & Aging    4. General    5. Maturation (Psychology)    6. Middle aged persons    7. Middle-aged persons    8. Personal Guidance    9. Psychology    10. Psychology Of Adulthood    11. Self-Help    12. Self-Help / Personal Growth / General   

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A very good book
This a a very good book on sex and relationships.There are probably not more than a dozen pages that apply only to 50+ people.Almost any age group could profit from the advice.It is of necessity a bit general, but it is well written, comprehensive, and useful.

Contentious
'Sex over 50' is a controversial book. While the authors might think it's safe, most responsible people believe that doing it while driving at that sort of speed is both irresponsible and dangerous. To quote Mario Andretti's review of the book in 'Wheels' Magazine (September 1999), 'Show consideration for other motorists. Either turn the air-conditioning to high or pull into a Motel 8.' ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Human Sexuality    3. Love / Sex / Marriage    4. Middle aged persons    5. Middle-aged persons    6. Psychology    7. Sex education    8. Sex instruction    9. Sexual Instruction    10. Sexual behavior    11. Sexuality    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    13. Sex & sexuality   

Subjects:  1. Developmental - General    2. Developmental - Lifespan Development    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    5. Biology, Life Sciences    6. Psychology / Developmental / Lifespan Development   

Editorial Review

Written for caregivers as well as the dying, Read more

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A good guide for daily living with or without a serious illness
I have owned this book for several years and decided to use it as an adjunct teaching tool for those training to become hospice volunteers. Every person in the groupgave a high rating to this book. I will continue to use this book in future volunteer training classes. Eileen Urquhart, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator, Visiting Nurse Association Hospice of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Handbook for Mortals
I found this book days after leaving the hospital with a two year prognosis for a misdiagnosed illness. My head was spinning.I was making lists of questions and to do lists for leaving my 2 young children.Finding this book was a wonderful gift.It answered my questions and provided a realistic outlook for what to expect of a terminal condition.The book provides sample statements for calling your relatives and helps you to prepare for your doctor appointments.I visited a doctor today and I led the session and all of my questions were addressed before the exam occurred.This book should be recommended to all diagnosed with a terminal illness.Highly recommended book!

Very useful in a difficult time
I wish I had picked up this book earlier in my step-father's illness. Very useful for those who are facing illness or who love someone who is very ill, telling you the kinds of things to expect and ways of dealing them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Death & Dying    2. Death And Dying (Sociological Aspects)    3. Home Care    4. Inspirational    5. Inspirational - General    6. Medical    7. Terminal Care Medicine    8. Coping with death & bereavement    9. Psychology | Health    10. Self-Help / Aging   

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ELDER RAGE gave me hope!
Not only does this book read like a fast-paced novel, but it provides real-life tools for the caregiver. Jacqueline Marcell's breezy, humorous style moves the story along and tempers a serious and heartbreaking subject--that of caring for elderly parents in general, and in particular those with memory impairments. The book is more than just one family's story. It is honest, insightful and full of helpful tips. (Through the Physician's Guide in the back of the book, I learned that my mother's sleeping pill 'can produce confusion.'
A Must Read If You Have An Aging Parent
Jacqueline Marcell has given us a detailed roadmap on caring for aging parents. She gives us the benefit of her experience as a caretaker for both her father and mother. The book is riveting, emotional, funny, and filled with practical advice regarding taking care of yourself whiletaking care of your parents. If your aging parent is critical, demanding, difficult, obstinate, hostile, or depressed, you'll find techniques to help you cope and effectively deal with the situation. If you are caring for an aging parent, this is a must read!

realism at it finest
A wonderful book full of truth, love, humor(most important)when dealing with ones parents, who are now in the final stages of their lives, with diseases, that are not recognized by the masses.Alzheimer is a horrible way to die, leaving one who does the care giving, memories, that can both be humorous, or devastating.I throughly enjoyed this book, and admire the author for her writing it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adult children    2. Aging - General    3. Aging parents    4. Care    5. Eldercare    6. Family & Relationships    7. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    8. Family Relationships    9. Family/Marriage    10. Health and hygiene    11. Parenting - Parent & Adult Child    12. United States    13. Marcell, Jacqueline    14. Alzheimer's disease    15. Aging    16. Interpersonal Relations    17. Caregiving    18. Psychology    19. Dementia    20. Caregivers    21. Home Care    22. Adjustment (Psychology)   

Editorial Review

The first of the baby-boomers have reached the half-century mark.And, as always, they're changing our cultural view of things. Dowling shares her own transition to maturity. She takes a look at the issues affecting women as they age in our culture: sex after menopause, marrying more than once and finances, to name a few. Armed with enough information, maybe we women can start to view age as a good thing. ... Read more

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It's a Wonderful Life
I admit it's been a while since I read this book. On the other hand, I found it so pivotal I have given it to friends and gone out to buy more copies, one of which I am starting to reread now. This book is funny and it is sad. Most of all, I found it realistic and affirmative. Cinderella Comes of Age...
Years ago I read Dowling's The Cinderella Complex and found I shared manyof her views on being female in the 70's. Red Hot Mamas carries us ontothe Middle Years for emancipated women. Mamas should be #1 on the list for women looking at 50.
I am 47, and this book has confirmed my strange feeling that that the 50'swill be outstanding!Once we make peace with the wrinkles, bags &sags, we can truly leave behind all the emotional constraints of our firsthalf-century.We can finally move beyond our frenzied and frustratinglives to realize the dreams we had at age 12.What, quit the corporate ratrace & become a dancer?Yes!Let our hair turn gray, don longflowered skirts and start a greenhouse?Yes, these and even more"bizarre" pursuits! Collette Dowling shows us how the brickwalls defining our lives can be dismantled to reveal the paths of ourdreams.I for one can hardly wait for menopause!! This is more than justa breezy book about life transitions.This book opens the spy glass ontothe real opportunities of mid-life and presents the complexities of50ish women as gifts rather than curses.Please write more and more, Ms.Dowling! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Middle aged women    3. Psychology    4. Sociology    5. United States    6. Women's Health - General    7. Coping with old age    8. Fitness & diet    9. Health & Fitness / Women's Health    10. Personal appearance & beauty care   

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You got the motion
This is a practicAL approach to helping us with ADD/ADHD. Dr Rotz uses many examples one can apply to keeping ones attention.
Very informative book
Once I started to read the book, I couldn't put it down! I kept underlying so much on every page ( one of the strategies I use to stay focused ) and found many insights.
Finally, A Book That Makes Sense For Those With ADD
There are several super books on the subject of Attention Deficit Disorder and each has sections that stand out. However, "Fidget To Focus" is the one book that has it all. It explains the reasons why people with ADD do the things they do AND offers excellent suggestions and solutions, too. What I like best about the book is that it isn't trying to change anyone but instead encourages readers to use their unique (and natural) tendencies to their advantage. Finally, the workbook in the back is an excellent resource for people who are really serious about finding ways to make the most of their ADD. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Developmental - General    2. Developmental - Lifespan Development    3. Psychology    4. Psychology / Developmental / Lifespan Development    5. ADD    6. ADHD    7. Attention Deficit Disorder   

Subjects:  1. Eldercare    2. Family & Relationships / Aging    3. Family & Relationships / Eldercare    4. Personal Growth - Memory Improvement    5. Self-Help    6. Social Work    7. Aged    8. Aging    9. Caregivers    10. Health Behavior    11. Intergenerational relations    12. Montessori method of education    13. Older people    14. Senile dementia   

Subjects:  1. Aging - General    2. Aging - Retirement    3. Business & Economics    4. Consumer Finance    5. Personal Finance    6. Personal Finance - Retirement Planning   

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Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Exercise/Health    2. Aging    3. Audiobooks    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Healthy Living    7. Personal Health    8. Prevention    9. Health & Fitness / Healthy Living   

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Love and Light
This book added so much to my love of yoga.Lilias has such a beautiful way of teaching and she is such a warm and understanding person.She has given me the gift of "love and light" in this wonderful book.

Wonderful for all yogis
Lilias's book is an excellent resource for understanding yoga but also to better understand your own practice. Lilias shares her knowledge of yoga in a holistic manner, covering all of the major topics necessary to gain a true understanding. She communicates the philosophy and practice through her own experiences so that it is not intimidating and easy to understand for a yogi at any level. It is a truly wonderful book and Lilias's enthusiasm for yoga is felt in every word you will read.

Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age
Very well suited to someone older who wants to learn yoga.I don't feel overwhelmed and incapable of learning.Lilias is a very good teacher and doesn't talk down to her readers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Consumer Health    3. Exercise for middle aged perso    4. Exercise for middle-aged persons    5. Exercise for older people    6. Hatha yoga    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health/Fitness    9. Yoga    10. Yoga for exercise   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Developmental - General    3. Developmental - Lifespan Development    4. Psychology    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Child & developmental psychology    9. Cultural studies    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology    11. Social, group or collective psychology    12. Sociology, Social Studies   

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Well Written & Helpful
"The New Love and Sex After 60" is a well written and helpful book.There is no question that older men and women may want to remain sexually active much longer than might have been supposed. The authors explain some of the normal changes brought about by aging and changing relationships.They also discuss possible issues brought about by illness.The tone throughout is upbeat and positive and the authors offer practical advice for maintaining a healthy intimate relationship.It's probably time for another revision that would cover a few more recent developments in medicine but this book is still worth reading.

But if you are not looking for advice on HRT...
I hate to see this book represented by 1 reviewer giving it 1 star. I teach in a gerontology program and I found this book very useful in preparing my class on sexuality. The most important message I got from this book is that sex after 60 is normal and natural, but different from sex earlier in life. One point I did not see in my other reading--there is a discrepancy in the number of men and women that increases with age so that by age 85, there are 41 men for every 100 women.I have read many proposed solutions to this, all assuming that men have an innate lower life expectancy than do women. Dr. Bulter's approach is that men need to learn to take better care of their health so that they live longer. This was the most positive, pro-male solution I have read.

A Disappointing Book
The knowledgeable reader who may recently have discontinued HRT and is looking for hard data re. resulting physiologic and sexual changes is unlikely to find much useful here. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Aging - General    3. Family & Relationships    4. Family/Marriage    5. General    6. Gerontology    7. Love / Sex / Marriage    8. Love in old age    9. Older people    10. Sex Relations    11. Sex education    12. Sex instruction for older peop    13. Sex instruction for older people    14. Sexual Instruction    15. Sexual behavior    16. Sexuality    17. Social Gerontology    18. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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How do we overcome childhood inculcation?
I purchased Wexler's new book to further my understanding of the process thru which a person sheds obsolete religious beliefs -- such as those that were inculcated in childhood -- and then adapts present-day, non-theistic beliefs such as those described in my book "Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-Minded Skeptics." I was hoping for a neurobiological elaboration of MD Faber's "The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief" (see my Amazon review of it) but I was only partially gratified.
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Subjects:  1. Cognitive Psychology    2. Culture    3. Developmental - Lifespan Development    4. Neurobiology    5. Neuropsychology    6. Psychological aspects    7. Psychology    8. Social aspects    9. Social change    10. Cognition & cognitive psychology    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Aging    2. Consumer Health    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Healthy Living    6. Homocysteine    7. Pathology    8. Pathophysiology    9. Diets & dieting    10. Nutrition