A theory of lives The stuff of dreams: cultural and familial threads Dream weaving (birth to age 17) The journey from adolescence to the adult world (ages 17-22): a second element added to the dream Entering the adult world (ages 22-28) The age-30 transition (ages 28-33): from student to physician and paterfamilias Settling down and becoming his own man (ages 33-40) Losing the way (ages 40-41): the initial phase of the mid-life transition Lost (ages 41-43): the mid-life crisis Finding a new way home (ages 43-45): the final phase of the mid-life transition
A wider realm (age 45 and after): the entry into middle age and beyond.
