The Measure of My Days - Florida Scott-Maxwell ( Jungian analyst )

Penguin, 1988, softcover, 150 pages, inscription to inside front cover, otherwise condition: very good.

Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (1883 - 1979) was a playwright, author and psychologist. She was born in Florida, educated at home until the age of ten, grew up in Pittsburgh,  moved to New York City at age 15 to become an actress, married  Maxwell Scott-Maxwell and moved to Scotland where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright

She divorced in 1929 and moved to London. In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl  Jung and practiced as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland.

Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later life when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. Written when Maxwell was in her eighties, The Measure of My Days offers a panoramic vision of the issues that haunt us throughout our the struggle to achieve goodness; how to maintain individuality in a mass society; and how to emerge--out of suffering, loss, and limitation--with something approaching wisdom. Maxwell's incredible wisdom, humanity, and dignity make The Measure of My Days both timeless and timely--an important contribution to the literature of aging, and of living.

                                                                            Her most famous book is The Measure of My Days (1968).