When I Grow Up:
conversations with adults in search of adulthood
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When I Grow Up:
conversations with adults in search of adulthood
Overview
When do you become an adult? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward — or keep us stuck?
These are the questions that journalist Moya Sarner sets out to answer as she begins training as a psychotherapist. But as she delves further into her own mind and others’, she soon realises that growing up is far from the linear process we imagine it to be. So begins a journey of discovery into what growing up really involves, and how we do it again and again throughout our lives.
From early adulthood through to old age, When I Grow Up examines each life stage, interrogating the traditional markers of adulthood and finding new ones. Through conversations with grown-ups from all walks of life, and through her own experiences and training, Sarner probes deep into our psyches to discover how we grow and develop, and what we need to thrive throughout our lives.
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- Paperback
- 234mm x 153mm
- 304 pages
- 9781925849882
- AUD$32.99
- 3 May 2022
- WORLD ENGLISH
- JANKLOW & NESBIT ASSOCIATES
Praise
‘Thoughtful … a painfully honest exploration of what it means to be an adult.’
‘A journalist and psychotherapist explores what it means to be an adult in a world that often infantilises … She takes her skills as a journalist and what she has learned about listening to explore the vexed question of what becoming a mature adult personality might entail, and why achieving it has become such a trial and a puzzlement for so many today, herself included.’
About the Author
Moya Sarner is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and award-winning freelance journalist based in London. She has written for The Times, The Guardian, New Scientist, Stylist, and other publications. When I Grow Up is her first book.
