Pathfinders: Overcoming the Crises of Adult Life and Finding Your Own Path to Well-Being

by Gail Sheehy

No book in the last decade has changed more lives than Gail Sheehy's groundbreaking Passages . Now, going beyond Passages in purpose and scope, Gail Sheehy's landmark best-seller explains why some of us overcome life's crises while others do not. Through interviews with hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, she has found the true pathfinders—men and women who have discovered uncommon solutions to the predictable crises and unexpected accidents of adult life. In vivid, unforgettable portraits, Gail Sheehy tells their life stories and analyzes the process by which they accumulated confidence, control and courage in their lives. Pathfinders is that rare book which sets you on your own unique path to well-being. No matter what age or which sex you are, you are likely to face many of the following Leaving home, choosing a mate, starting a career, turning thirty, considering divorce, deciding whether or not to become a parent, mourning the death of a parent, turning fifty, facing financial disasters, learning how to retire without joining the walking dead— Pathfinders will show you how to turn these life obstacles into opportunities.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

625 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.

Her fifth book, Passages, has been called "a road map of adult life". Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life's stages, including menopause and what she calls "Second Adulthood", including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women's sex and love lives after age fifty. She has also authored a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton titled Hillary's Choice. Her novel Middletown, America is being adapted as a TV miniseries. (from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Velvetink · Rating 4 out of 5]

* Inherited from Mum's shelves.

[Luanne Coachman · Rating 4 out of 5]

While some superficial details about American society, like average salaries, are very out of date in this 80’s era time, an astonishing amount of substantive info and analysis is disturbingly on point today. Like the role of fundamentalism in our culture. The stories of people who have found courageous and innovative ways of meeting both inner and outer challenges remain, while firmly rooted in their time and place, both timeless and inspiring.

[Nanto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kalo gak salah, ini buku psikologi. :D Beli di Cikapundung. Fokus bacaanya awalnya pada metode studi kasus yang digunakan buku ini. Uraiannya tidak terlalu teknis, cukup mengalir. Isinya persoalan makna hidup. Semacam psikologi humanistik begitu barang kali. Besok saya buka lagi buku ini. Takut ingatan saya menepu soalnya.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rate: C

[Debra Golden · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read it at least twice. It's encouraging to know the more interesting and successful path is not that clear.

[Jeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

"If you are treading water, avoiding the risk of change and killing time - remember the time you are killing is your own."

[Maureen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fab book. Read it on the bus commute to work,between Gresham and Portland, in 1983

[Itisme]

mid 1980's