title: Middle life crisis and industrial workers.
abstract: Psychiatric consultation with a large utility company has uncovered a unique manifestation of the middle life syndrome. Employees with 20 or more years of service, referred to our psychiatric group, have in common such issues as "institutional transference," unfulfilled employee vocational dreams and fantasies, with concurrent inability to adjust to technological, geographical and personnel changes. The author suggests personnel programs and policies which might help to deal preventively with these problems before employees reach middle life. Methods are suggested in which corporation changes might be more sensitively instituted to meet the psychological needs of employees.
mesh_terms: D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010551:Personality; D010559:Personnel Management; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014167:Transference, Psychology