ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses man's lifespan development. It offers no recipes or solutions and seeks only to describe some of the problems. 'Time' in all of the domains – personal, generational, social, biological and developmental – can be perceived differently. But each domain provides its own characteristic cues to mark the passage of time. Eternal youth and beauty offer a timeless solution to these difficult problems of growth. Typically, a young child is supposed to be innocent and curious before he grows into a bold and optimistic young adult who then proceeds to become a sagacious and serene old person. The mid-life crisis is but one of the best known of these periods of re-adjustment, but any time of transition at any time of life will need to be followed by some kind of personal re-organisation and re-adjustment. A young student came to the Clinic for help at the point when he was about to enter his adult life.
