title: Group treatment of adults in midlife.
abstract: Adults in midlife can be significantly helped through group treatment that is sensitive to the developmental issues of the age period. The author suggests that the developmental crisis of midlife--Generativity versus Stagnation--can, through unconscious processes, become a group crisis as well. A group state of stagnation, enveloping the members as well as the leader, if understood and worked through, can significantly facilitate the developmental progress of its midlife members. A clinical example demonstrates how a therapist helped his midlife group move out of stagnation and toward generativity.
authors.affiliation: F. H. LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kleinberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007063:Identity Crisis; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*