Freud : from youthful dream to mid-life crisis / Peter M. Newton.

New York : Guilford Press, [1995], ©1995.

xxii, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references (p. 277-283) and index

A theory of lives -- The stuff of dreams: cultural and familial threads -- Dream weaving (birth to age 17) -- The journey from adolescence to the adult world (ages 17-22): a second element added to the dream -- Entering the adult world (ages 22-28) -- The age-30 transition (ages 28-33): from student to physician and paterfamilias -- Settling down and becoming his own man (ages 33-40) -- Losing the way (ages 40-41): the initial phase of the mid-life transition -- Lost (ages 41-43): the mid-life crisis -- Finding a new way home (ages 43-45): the final phase of the mid-life transition

A wider realm (age 45 and after): the entry into middle age and beyond.