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Except for the adult stages described by Erikson, adult development has received little attention until the past few years. Recent work by Neugarten,1,2 Levenson and associates,3 Gould,4 Barnett and Baruch,5 and others has focused attention on the middle years as a time of development and change rather than a static period or one whose major dynamic is toward aging and death.
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Notman, M. (1982). Midlife Concerns of Women: Implications of the Menopause. In: Nadelson, C.C., Notman, M.T. (eds) The Woman Patient. Women in Context: Development and Stresses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9242-6_8
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