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Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Donald Capps
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Description for Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Paperback. Bringing together both pastoral awareness and psychoanalytical knowledge, this is a life-affirming study of the growth and creativity of old age. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JMD; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 312.
The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In 'Still Growing', however, Donald Capps shows that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that a central feature of this growth and development is the remarkable creativity of older adults. This creativity is the consequence of the wisdom gained through years of experience but is also due to a newly developed capacity to adapt to unprecedented challenges integral to the aging process. In Part 1, Capps illustrates ... Read more
The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In 'Still Growing', however, Donald Capps shows that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that a central feature of this growth and development is the remarkable creativity of older adults. This creativity is the consequence of the wisdom gained through years of experience but is also due to a newly developed capacity to adapt to unprecedented challenges integral to the aging process. In Part 1, Capps illustrates ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718893910
SKU
V9780718893910
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Ref
99-2
About Donald Capps
Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology (Emeritus) and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of 'The Resourceful Self: And a Child Lead Them' (The Lutterworth Press, 2015) and 'At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art' (The Lutterworth Press, 2013).
Reviews for Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
"...these two books [The Resourceful Self and Still Growing] offer useful insights into Erikson's thinking, and a fresh way of presenting Erikson's commitment to the truth of the healing power of self-knowledge, seen through a freudian lens." -Anne Holmes, Church Times, 16th September 2016 'Donald Capps (1939-2015) was one of the premier spokespersons for the fields of pastoral counseling ... Read more