Pathfinders

by Gail Sheehy

Examines--through personal case histories, analysis, and examples--creative, original, and expansive ways to effectively overcome the crises of adult life by drawing on one's own inner resources

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

494 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.

Her fifth book, Passages, has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women's sex and love lives after age fifty. She has also authored a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton titled Hillary's Choice. Her novel Middletown, America is being adapted as a TV miniseries. (from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Luanne Coachman]

While some superficial details about American society, like average salaries, are very out of date in this 80’s era time, an astonishing amount of substantive info and analysis is disturbingly on point today. Like the role of fundamentalism in our culture. The stories of people who have found courageous and innovative ways of meeting both inner and outer challenges remain, while firmly rooted in their time and place, both timeless and inspiring.

[Debra Golden]

I've read it at least twice. It's encouraging to know the more interesting and successful path is not that clear.

[Velvetink]

* Inherited from Mum's shelves.

[Nanto]

Kalo gak salah, ini buku psikologi. :D Beli di Cikapundung. Fokus bacaanya awalnya pada metode studi kasus yang digunakan buku ini. Uraiannya tidak terlalu teknis, cukup mengalir. Isinya persoalan makna hidup. Semacam psikologi humanistik begitu barang kali. Besok saya buka lagi buku ini. Takut ingatan saya menepu soalnya.

[John]

Rate: C

[Jeanne]

"If you are treading water, avoiding the risk of change and killing time - remember the time you are killing is your own."

[Maureen]

A fab book. Read it on the bus commute to work,between Gresham and Portland, in 1983

[Itisme]

mid 1980's