From Despair to Integrity: Using Narrative Therapy for Older Individuals in Erikson’s Last Stage of Identity Development | Semantic Scholar

The paper presents case examples in which unique outcomes emerged when elders with memory loss resisted the cultural imperative to perceive their lives in sequential order and instead emphasized character traits and thematic patterns in their stories.

The theme of the volume is that it is human to have a long childhood which will leave a lifelong residue of emotional immaturity in man.