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Another view of the midlife crisis is also presented by Erikson but encompasses the other side his seventh stage in the psychosocial crisis of middle age which is known as Out of the Psychosocial Crisis: Generativity vs Stagnation. In the view of generativity, the person is procreativity, productive, and creative and wants to make a difference in the generation to come. In the book Development Through Life: A Psychosocial Approach the author sites Stewart and Vandewater who “Suggested that generativity arises through three phases: (1) generative desire or motivation, (2) a belief in one’s capacity for generative action, and (3) a subjective sense of generative accomplishment.”(Development Through Life a Psychosocial Approach p 513)  Basically a generative person, even though they may be in “midlife crisis”, keeps moving forward. Carl Jung, viewed midlife crisis as an opportunity to find oneself, not a negative but a time of moving forward or a journey of individualization. The way to do this, according to Jung, is to use midlife as a transition time; a time to take a journey into your unconscious and release what he refers to as the shadow parts of you that you have denied or rejected. Jung viewed midlife as a time to transition from persona-orientation to self-orientation, finding oneself and being complete. The article Get a Midlife in the New York Times notes that researchers have discovered that men and women in their middle decades are the happiest. “In the areas that mattered most- like feeling in control of their lives, having a sense of purpose and supportive social networks- the middle-age scored highest on average. (Get a Midlife, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2012 p2.)