We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we’ve made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck—commonly known as the “midlife crisis.” Jungian psycho-analyst James Hollis believes it is only in the second half of life that we can truly come to know who we are and thus create a life that has meaning.

In Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Hollis explores the ways we can grow and evolve to fully become ourselves when the traditional roles of adulthood aren’t quite working for us, revealing a new way of uncovering and embracing our authentic selves. Offering wisdom to anyone facing a career that no longer seems fulfilling, a long-term relationship that has shifted, or family transitions that raise issues of aging and mortality, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life provides a reassuring message and a crucial bridge across this critical passage of adult development.

 

盤點過往，重啟人生，與你靈魂的召喚久別重逢
當你開始意識到時光有限，如何重新思考人生的重要排序？
 

★榮格心理學名家、《中年之路》作者──經典著作
★《中年之路》譯者鐘穎老師──專文推薦

你一直在過著誰的生活？
是什麼將你帶至人生旅程的此時此地？

為何即使一帆風順，還是感覺哪裡不對勁？
為何那麼多事，最後都是失望收尾？

你目前的人生，已滿足靈魂的渴望了嗎？
現在是你最接近覺醒，展開「第二次人生」的時候。

許多人在三十至四十多歲時，迎來人生各種的動盪和困惑，發現自己一直在過著別人期待的人生，根本不知道自己是誰，想要的是什麼，甚至不知道為何而活，於是開始深思：自己要度過怎樣的人生下半場？

本書作者霍利斯博士在三十五歲時，因中年憂鬱開始接受第一次心理治療，那成為改變他日後人生的開始。他以自身閱歷與從業多年來豐富的個案經驗，寫成這本書，期盼為尋覓人生意義的人們，提供擴展覺知及聆聽內在的途徑。

本書是為了喚起你的個人覺醒，告別無意義的反覆迴圈，試圖從心理學的角度來思索人生下半場的價值與中年的意義，作者文字溫暖療癒，同時又不斷挑戰並鼓舞著我們，適時跳脫舒適圈，去回應生命所提出的靈魂召喚。

——中文簡介摘自橡實文化出版《覺醒中年》