Jungian psychology has several special implications for helping older people and
understanding their development in old age. The implications are discussed as
tenets which apply to this time in life. These tenets are: 1) The meaning and purpose
of life, 2) the turning inward and preoccupation with self, and 3) the reversal into
the opposite.
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