Introduction: Toward Theories in Mental Health and Aging; J. Lomranz. Well-Being, Adjustment, and Growth Behaviors in Later Life: Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life; D. Shmotkin. Control: Cognitive and Motivational Implications; L.C. Perlmuter, A.S. Eads. Stress, Coping, and Mental Health: Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults; M. Gatz. The Adult Developing Self: The Double Voice of the Third Age: Splitting the Speaking Self as an Adaptive Strategy in later Life; H. Hazan. Psychodynamics and Psychopathology in Later Life: Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging: Creating New Meanings within Narratives of Lived Experiences; B.J. Cohler. The Role of the Family in Later Life: Perspectives in the Family and Stress in Late Life; L.I. Pearlin, M.M. Skaff. Memory and Dementia: The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations; G. Niederehe. Depression and Aging: Depression as a Pivotal Component of Secondary Aging: Opportunities for Research, Treatment, and Prevention; I.R. Katz. 16 Additional Chapters. Index.