In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review. The life review--a theory about the nature of the life cycle first presented in 1962--has become a foundation for program development with the elderly. This unique analysis of the life review goes beyond the early formulation both in theory and practice. Critics of the life review suggest ways in which the theory can be modified and expanded and offer several unique methods of creatively adapting these criticisms and changes to practical purposes. Proponents of the life review--while emphasizing that reminiscence is not a panacea--proclaim its historical, educational, and therapeutic value.
Contents
Preface: Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Popular
I. Introduction
Twenty-Five Years of the Life Review: Where Did We Come From? Where Are We
Going?
II. Theory and Interpretation
Reminiscence, Identity, Sentimentality: Simone de Beauvoir and the Life
Review
Rediscovered Lives: Work With Older People in the Search for Time Past
Grandparenthood, Life Review, and Psychosocial Development
Late Life Divorce and the Life Review
III. Adaptations and Applications
All That Our Eyes Have Witnessed: Memories of a Living History Workshop in
the South Bronx
Images From the Occupational Years: The Reminiscences of Retirees and Their
Implications for Social Work Practice
The Young, the Old, and the Life Review: Report on a Brookdale Project
Transformation: Life Review and Communal Theater
Robert Disch
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