A Limited View of Grown—Ups

Reviews the book, The Adult Years by Wilbur Bradbury (1975). This paperbound picture-and-text book should be reviewed as journalism, not as scholarly work. "Journalism" is not used here in a pejorative sense, psychology profits when communication is good with the general public. Much of the content of the book is not in the mainstream of data-based psychological study of maturity and old age. As is so frequently the case in journalistic considerations of behavior, psychoanalysis and analytically oriented psychiatry dominate the text, followed by considerable social psychology. While the book won't tell you much about what's going on in life-span psychology, it is successful as journalism. It's readable, interesting, sprightly, and attractive. In fact, for those who aren't into home ostentation, the paperbound volume might make it as a coffee-table book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)