PT BOOKSHELF
ON SEXUALITY, SPIRITUALITY, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MORE SURPRISING GUIDEPOSTS TO A HAPPIER LIFE FROM THE LANDMARK HARVARD STUDY OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Little, Brown, $24.95
Some of us tend to think of aging as a slippery slope that ends in the coffin. But as Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant, M.D., shows, old age can be the best of times for many people. Vaillant draws on evidence from the famous Harvard study of development and other sources to identify why old age is a curse to some and a blessing to others. The lessons to be learned in this artfully written book are not just for the elderly; since aging actually begins at birth, young people can learn how to live so that they will be among what Vaillant calls the "happy-well," rather than the "sad-sick" or the "prematurely dead."
