The Middle Passage: From Misery To Meaning in Midlife

Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years?  The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to re-examine our lives and to ask: “Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?”  It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of the first adulthood and our inevitable appointment with old age and mortality.  Hollis guides the reader how to travel the Middle Passage (middle years) consciously, thereby rendering one’s life more meaningful, and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

The Middle Passage addresses the following issues:
The sense of self; the changes that herald the Middle Passage; individuation and our commitment to others; how to move from misery to meaning.