Dr Peter O'Connor: The Mid-Life Crisis - A Jungian Perspective

Dr Peter O’Connor, a retired psychologist with an abiding interest in Jungian Depth Psychology, speaks about the “human fragility and human failure” experienced at the heart of the mid-life crisis. He describes how the first half of life involves a pursuit of the qualities traditionally associated with the sex of one’s birth but that in mid-life, those qualities of wholeness that were sacrificed, in order to pursue seemingly masculine or feminine attributes, demand to be recognised and integr...