Psychiatric Aspect of Middle Age.

Some thirty years ago Walter P. Pitkin wrote a book called Life Begins at Forty. Its sales rocketed to millions and it probably helped to crystallize the attractive image of youthful middle-age which beguiles us from the pages of American magazines, with its sun-tanned greying men with flashing teeth, skilfully concealing girth under colourful, capacious, Hawaian shirts, or those icily elegant, exquisitely poised ladies of ambiguous age wearing dark glasses and enjoying cocktails with the captain.