Some of my younger friends have been trying to get me to go online with a website and blog for a long time. I’ve resisted because I was content with the readership and response to my column in the local paper – Ojai and Ventura View-. I’m also a bit phobic and judgmental about modern …
(Part I) ‘Mid-life crisis’ has become a household word. When we see our mid-life friends and colleagues behave in odd and surprising ways or when depression, despair, anxiety and hypochondriasis hit, we quickly diagnose it as a mid-life crisis. Usually this is easier to see in others and take a little longer to acknowledge within …
The Middle Years – From the Mid-Thirties to the Late Fifties – Pt 1 Read More »
Puer Aeturnus is Latin for ‘Eternal Youth’. It is a concept from the psychology of Carl Jung and applies to those men who, even though they’re in their 30’s, 40’s or 50’s have retained the emotional characteristics of an adolescent. Many of these men, referred to as Puers from now on, had fathers who were …
Men Who Never Grow Up – The ‘Puer Aeturnus Complex’ Read More »