A history of geropsychology in autobiography / edited by James E. Birren and Johannes J.F. Schroots.

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2000], ©2000.

vii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes index and bibliography.

An introduction to a history of geropsychology in autobiography / James E. Birren and Johannes J.F. Schroots -- Autobiographical reflections : from developmental methodology and lifespan psychology to gerontology / Paul B. Baltes -- Studying aging in Norway / Eva Beverfelt -- I have to do it myself / James E. Birren -- A forty-year career in geropsychology / Jack Botwinick -- A personal perspective from the United Kingdom / Dennis Basil Bromley -- Aging memories : a career in cognitive psychology / Fergus I.M. Craik -- Ten years with ageless albino rats and college sophomores led to a thirty-something career in geropsychology / James L. Fozard -- A case of chance and choice / Margaret Gatz -- Footprints on the sands of time : an autobiography / Elsie Harwood -- Elderly mentors and the nepotism rule / Irene Mackintosh Hulicka -- Dr. Paleg's skull : on the geropsychologizing of Robert Kastenbaum / Robert Kastenbaum -- On becoming more general with age / Nathan Kogan -- Reason and emotion across the life span : a personal view / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Chance and choice make a good life / M. Powell Lawton -- An aging geneticist / Gerald E. McClearn -- Getting here was half the fun / John R. Nesselroade -- Development of an adult developmental psychologist / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Living with gerontology / K. Warner Schaie -- E cinere resurgo : autobiography of a geropsychologist / Johannes J.F. Schroots -- One step ahead : an autobiography / Joel Shanan -- Consistent curiosity about human lives / Hans Thomae -- Transmission and transmutation / Lillian E. Troll -- Epilogue : The global emergence of geropsychology / Linda Fagan Dubin.