An introduction to a history of geropsychology in autobiography / James E. Birren and Johannes J.F. Schroots -- Autobiographical reflections : from developmental methodology and lifespan psychology to gerontology / Paul B. Baltes -- Studying aging in Norway / Eva Beverfelt -- I have to do it myself / James E. Birren -- A forty-year career in geropsychology / Jack Botwinick -- A personal perspective from the United Kingdom / Dennis Basil Bromley -- Aging memories : a career in cognitive psychology / Fergus I.M. Craik -- Ten years with ageless albino rats and college sophomores led to a thirty-something career in geropsychology / James L. Fozard -- A case of chance and choice / Margaret Gatz -- Footprints on the sands of time : an autobiography / Elsie Harwood -- Elderly mentors and the nepotism rule / Irene Mackintosh Hulicka -- Dr. Paleg's skull : on the geropsychologizing of Robert Kastenbaum / Robert Kastenbaum -- On becoming more general with age / Nathan Kogan -- Reason and emotion across the life span : a personal view / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Chance and choice make a good life / M. Powell Lawton -- An aging geneticist / Gerald E. McClearn -- Getting here was half the fun / John R. Nesselroade -- Development of an adult developmental psychologist / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Living with gerontology / K. Warner Schaie -- E cinere resurgo : autobiography of a geropsychologist / Johannes J.F. Schroots -- One step ahead : an autobiography / Joel Shanan -- Consistent curiosity about human lives / Hans Thomae -- Transmission and transmutation / Lillian E. Troll -- Epilogue : The global emergence of geropsychology / Linda Fagan Dubin
Summary
Presents the history of geropsychology in the words of many of the pioneers who developed research, scholarship, and educational programs in the subject during its formative phase. The editors urged the writers to describe the development of their careers so that others might gain an understanding of the conditions and the influences that attracted their interest and that provided support or resistance to their ideas and efforts. In addition to the purely intellectual account of their careers, the authors were encouraged to tell details of their lives that characterize their career pathways between pitfalls and good fortune, depressions and wars, antipathies and attractions, and the influential stereotypes and social lab effects. This book also presents material that helps to give insights into how creative and productive lives develop and flower. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)