Age-related Gendered Diminishment: toward understanding and interventions for a common psychological experience in post-midlife women DOI Creative Commons

Gail Saltz

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Building from clinical observations with women at midlife and beyond, Age-related Gendered Diminishment (AGD) is presented as an integrated construct for a common psychological experience characterized by feelings of invisibility inconsequentiality after midlife. Etiological contributors are suggested aligned to existing literature describing frequent challenges this stage life; potential evolutionary social roots discussed; the question why complex symptoms remains under-recognized in mental health contexts evaluated. Finally, therapeutic interventions aimed construction generative identities proposed call further research better understand address phenomenon.

Язык: Английский

Age-related Gendered Diminishment: toward understanding and interventions for a common psychological experience in post-midlife women DOI Creative Commons

Gail Saltz

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Building from clinical observations with women at midlife and beyond, Age-related Gendered Diminishment (AGD) is presented as an integrated construct for a common psychological experience characterized by feelings of invisibility inconsequentiality after midlife. Etiological contributors are suggested aligned to existing literature describing frequent challenges this stage life; potential evolutionary social roots discussed; the question why complex symptoms remains under-recognized in mental health contexts evaluated. Finally, therapeutic interventions aimed construction generative identities proposed call further research better understand address phenomenon.

Язык: Английский

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