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The book makes a persuasive argument for how we come to acquire self-identities that take us farther from our real Self.

It is a book by a Jungian psychologist about that important passage in our life, known mostly as the midlife crisis. And through most of the night (such was the unfolding excitement of reading it) and some of the day, I read it in large gulps. Last year, this was recommended by a stranger - a psychologist - and even though I bought it immediately, its turn to be read came only yesterday. If The Middle Passage had come to me a few years ago, I wonder if it would have held my interest or even been intelligible to me. It is a book b I believe some books come to you when you need them and are ready to receive them. I believe some books come to you when you need them and are ready to receive them. This book shows how we may travel the Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer. How did we acquire our original sense of self? What are the changes that herald the Middle Passage? How does one revision the sense of self? What is the relationship between Jung's concept of individuation and our commitment to others? What attitudes and behavior support individuation and help us move from misery to meaning? The Middle Passage addresses the following issues: The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine 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. Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine 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 exten Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis?