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Once Upon a Noon Time: Fairy Tales and the Psychology of Men and Women at Mid-Life
March 20, 1992 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST
This lecture and workshop will explore the archetypal masks of mid-life as depicted in fairy tales from around the world. Some dozen stories from Germany, Persia, Russia, Japan, Israel, and Italy will be retold and discussed. These tales portray crucial tasks of mid-life: transforming youthful ideals into practical action; breaking gender stereotypes to free the anima and animus; for men, learning new forms of masculine power from a Spirit Brother; for women, embracing a Sisterhood of Nature beyond patriarchy or matriarchy; and for both men and women, reconciling opposites through contact with a primordial life source, a center of creativity and healing.
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Allan B. Chinen, M.D., is the author of four books and the psychological and spiritual tasks of aging: In the Ever After, Once Upon a Midlife, Beyond the Hero, and Waking the World. Although retired from private practice to focus on writing, he continues to teach as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, on the voluntary faculty of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He Is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Born and raised in Hawaii, he obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University, and completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship at University of California, San Francisco.