The Psychology of Retirement is the first self-help guide to retirement based on highly proven psychological coping strategies. * Provides the most comprehensive and coherent account of the challenges of retirement and the associated aging process * Represents the culmination of over 30 years of clinical, teaching and research involvement in the main issues discussed within this book * Draws systematically on applied scientific theories, accepted professional circles, which are interpreted and communicated by an applied scientist * A constructive emphasis establishes the best possible coping strategies and perspectives