The Adventure of Ageing

For over fifteen years the clinical psychologist, Marie de Hennezel, has questioned our relationship to time and age, and has explored the experience of ageing. Why should we be ashamed of growing old? In this book she shares with us the fruits of her work, and her insights on a subject that is ever more present in the public’s mind. In fact, she suggests that we should look on ageing from a different angle, as an opportunity to be seized, a final chapter of life, full of promise.

She invites us to live the experience as an adventure, in which the curiosity of the mind, the desire to explore one’s inner self and to welcome new emotions gives old age its full meaning. She warns us not to wait until old age is upon us to prepare ourselves for it, but to face the fact that the body does indeed grow old, which is the best way to avoid the decline that we all fear. And she shows us how to achieve this, with well-tested methods that have shown their worth.