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Interview with Carlo Strenger on Midlife Crisis

February 2009 - By Dr. Nagendra V Chowdary

“ The basis of our “Existential Necessity of Midlife Change” is the realization that the increase in life-expectancy is about to make midlife change inevitable for most of us. The human psyche is simply not built to do the same thing for so many years. The second insight is that the idea of retirement has become obsolete.”
—Carlo Strenger
Effective executive interview with Carlo Strenger on Midlife Crisis

Carlo Strenger was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained in philosophy and psychology and received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently associate professor at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University, a member of the Institute of Existential Psychoanalysis, Zurich and of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists. In the early 1990s he developed a combination of existential psychoanalysis and coaching and gained extensive experience (more than 20,000 sessions) working with entrepreneurs and executives in hi-tech, finance, the media,

arts and politics. In 2005 he co-founded Life-Take2 Institute with Arie Ruttenberg. This institution helps midlifers to initiate their second lifecycle and consults companies and government on how to deal with the implications of increased life-expectancy. Strenger has published five books including Individuality, the Impossible Project and The Designed Self and numerous scientific papers including “The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change” (with Arie Ruttenberg) in the Harvard Business Review. His research focuses on the topics of the development of individuality and the impact of cultural changes on personal identity and he frequently lectures

and conducts seminars in Europe and the US on his topics of expertise. In recent years Strenger has felt compelled to take a more active stance on issues that matter to him, primarily the defense of individual liberty, the intellectual level of public discourse, and the striving for a sane solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He regularly voices his views through op-ed-contributions to Israel’s leading newspaper Haaretz and to Britain’s The Guardian; he has emerged as a forceful voice and his articles are regularly translated into up to ten languages.

Useful for Understanding of:

  • “Existential necessity” of midlife change
  • Advantages of midlife
  • Risk of not managing the midlife
  • Features of a corporate executive’s Midlife change.
Originally Published in Effective Executive, IUP
Effective Executive Reference No. 03M-2009-02-13-06
IBSCDC Reference No. INT0089
Year and Month of Publication February 2009
Keywords Carlo Strenger, “Existential necessity” of midlife change, Advantages of midlife, Risk of not managing the midlife, Features of a corporate executive’s midlife change

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