» Our Harvard Business Review Paper The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change can be accessed through the HBR Website.

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» The first publication applying lessons from motorcycling to psychoanalysis is Carlo Strenger, Of Potholes and Bends: A Meditation on Psychoanalysis and Motorcycle Riding. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 21, No 4,2004, 638-644.
You can access it here:  Negotiating Bends of Life (49 kB)

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» For a case study of a man who made deep and lasting changes at midlife, see the story of ‘Raphael', chapter 5 of Carlo Strenger, Individuality, the Impossible Project.  1998.
You can access it here:  Raphael (58 kB)
An online version of Carlo's paper ‘East of Eden' dealing with the same case can be accessed at: http://jhp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/4/41

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» If you want to compare the way Carlo saw himself before embarking on his second lifecycle, see his autobiographic paper ‘From Yeshiva to Critical Pluralism', Psychoanalytic Inquiry,  2002, 534-558.
You can access it here:  From Yeshiva to Critical Pluralism (96.45 kB)

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» For a paper on changes entrepreneurs make at midlife in order to succeed see the paper by Carlo Strenger and Jacob Burak, ‘The Leonardo Effect: Why Entrepreneurs need to become the own Fathers'. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Vol 2(2) Apr 2005, 103-128
You can access it here:  Leonardo Effect (227.21 kB)

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» For those interested in Carlo's theoretical views on the development of individuality, please see two of his books:
1. Individuality, the Impossible Project.
2. The Designed Self