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In Greek mythology, Zeus banished his son Tantalus to the very deepest part of the Underworld (to be fair, Tantalus appears to have largely brought this upon himself). There, he was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches rose (‘tantalisingly’) away from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded.
For those of us in Generation X, the story of Tantalus is perhaps how we view discussion of pension age (p.12). But if we do get to retirement, will it be positive for our physical and mental health (p.24), and how might we make the most of it? ‘The Psychologist Guide to Retirement’, accompanying this issue and on our website, provides some evidence - based tips. Please do share with anyone you think might beneï¬t from it.
In the meantime, we must surely approach our working lives with stoicism the Greeks would have admired: resilience, positivity, work ethic. No, says David Frayne (p.50): ‘stop this nonsense’.
Dr Jon Sutton
Managing Editor
@psychmag
Letters
Climate; prevention; Eysenck; digital health; and more
Obituary
Peter Beaman
News
Pension age; obesity; an interview with Janet Bultitude; and more
Digest
Retirement
‘How does this ï¬t into the real world of policing?’
Becky Milne on improving the interviewing of witnesses
The sibling spotlight
Rachel Batchelor on the challenges facing the ‘forgotten’ brothers and sisters of seriously ill children
Finding a route to independence
Emily Farran on navigation and the spatial domain in neurodevelopmental disorders
‘It forced me to think in different ways about single-session therapy’
Windy Dryden meets Moshe Talmon
Culture
Reasons to Stay Alive; Mistify; Another Me; and more
‘You can always ï¬nd something inside someone to work with’
We meet Yvette Bates, Senior Forensic Psychologist at HMP Dovegate
Jobs in psychology
Featured job, latest vacancies
Looking back
Sarah Chaney on needle girls and motiveless malingerers
One on one
...with Sidney Irvine
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