Jane Adams

Writer, Social Psychologist and Personal Coach, Seattle

Jane Adams PhD is a writer, social psychologist, personal coach and blogger for Psychology Today. Her most recent book is Boundary Issues: Using Boundary Intelligence to Get the Intimacy You Want and the Independence You Need in Life, Love, and Work (2005). She lives in Seattle.

Written by Jane Adams

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AGEING

Older people are battling despair, but Erikson offers us hope

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a mental toll on older people. The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson offers a way out of our despair

by Jane Adams