Arnall also says, in a press release commissioned by Wall's ice cream, that he has calculated the happiest day of the yearâin 2005, 24 June, in 2006, 23 June, in 2008, 20 June in 2009, 19 June, and in 2010, 18 June. So far, this date has fallen close to Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere (June 21 to 24).
Midlife crisis is a term first coined by Elliott Jaques referring to a critical phase in human development during the forties to early sixties, based on the character of change points, or periods of transition. The period is said to vary among individuals and between men and women.
Part of the reason we don't know much about women's midlife experience is that the focus has often been on men. For them, the midlife crisis (a term coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in a 1965 journal article) usually involves busting stuff upâmarriages, mostlyâbut also careers, norms, reputations.