DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...

STUDY 2 - Second Interview Schedule
Question 1
p.1 “I was leavdng life as I believed life needed to be led”
Could you expand a bit more on that – how did you believe life needed to be led?
Question 2
p.1 “And that was success, or what I believed was success.”
Tell me more about your view of what success was in those days. What did it mean to you?
Was “success” what your life was predominantly about in those days?
And further…
p.2 “I think it was just cultural issues that were pushing upon me that this was success.”
Question 3
p.1“I was so focussed on delivering what I thought I had to do”
Where did this sense of necessity, compulsion, come from?
Question 4
p.2 “I was on autopilot” – what do you mean by that? Where did it come from?
Question 5
You describe your life situation as a pressure cooker
p.4 “So there was a new opportunity to break out of the pressure cooker of what I had been doing”
Can you say in retrospect what you meant by that metaphor?
Question 6
You used a phrase to refer to your time at Parnell as ‘frenetic inactivity’
Can you say more about what you meant by that?
Any anecdote or story that represents that time at Parnell or you at the time?
Question 7
P.3 “And then for the first time in my life I turned to someone and said can you help me?”
Why do you think you hadn’t asked people for help in the past.
Question 8
Any idea what led to starting to write poetry?
Question 9
You describe the peak of the crisis as an “almost total annihilation”
Could you say what you meant by that?
Did you feel like your sense of self had been annihilated?
Any anecdote or story that represents the time between March and September where you were in
this really difficult phase?
Question 10
“I started to explore three avenues which were fundamental to me – first was new science..second
was the spiritual side…third was dancing”
Where did this exploration come from?
In what sense were these three areas fundamental to you?
Question 11
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