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Title A history of geropsychology in autobiography / edited by James E. Birren and Johannes J.F. Schroots
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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In PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO
Subject Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Study and teaching -- History
Older people -- Psychology -- Study and teaching -- History
Developmental psychology -- History
Psychologists -- Biography
Older people.
History.
Psychology.
Humanities.
Adulthood.
Medical personnel.
Geriatrics -- history
Aged
Geriatrics
History
Psychology
Behavioral Sciences
Humanities
Medicine
Adult
Age Groups
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Health Occupations
Psychiatry and Psychology
Persons
Disciplines and Occupations
Named Groups
Aged -- psychology
Psychology -- history
elderly.
history (discipline)
psychology.
behavioral sciences.
humanities.
Psychology
Older people
Medical personnel
Humanities
History
Adulthood
Developmental psychology
Psychologists
Alterspsychologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Gerontologie.
Psychologie.
Ouderen.
Geriatrie.
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Vieillissement -- Aspect psychologique -- Étude et enseignement.
Personnes âgées -- Psychologie -- Étude et enseignement.
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Memoirs.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Birren, James E
Schroots, J. J. F
ISBN 1557986312
9781557986313
Other Titles Geropsychology in autobiography