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Many academics have earned more than $75,000 in author's royalties, but U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Roger Gould, 43, may be the first to make that much from someone else's book. Since 1969 Gould has been studying "adult life stages" in an effort to show that all men and women go through similar phases of psychological development. Manhattan Journalist Gail Sheehy, in preparing her 1976 bestseller Passages, borrowed enough from Gould's unpublished research that the psychiatrist sued for plagiarism. The suit was settled out of court, with Gould receiving $10,000 and 10% of Sheehy...
...Gould let Sheehy beat him into print with his own ideas? "I thought I would write a book in about three or four more years, after I had thought about the problem more." The product of his pondering is Transformations (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Though clearly more serious than Sheehy's pop-psych success, the book is unlikely to quell skepticism about research on adult cycles...
That research derives from Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, who wrote a few cryptic pages on the subject, then invited others to flesh out adult stages. As Gould charts them, the stages-for men and women-break down as follows...
...This is a time of disillusionment and soul searching. Life is viewed as complicated and unfair. Says Gould: "Discovering that 'life is a struggle' is like rediscovering the wheel...
Although Cannon has made several sexpotboilers, she has also given some impressive performances. She received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969 of the well-stacked wife who turns uptight when her husband (Elliott Gould) and friends start to dabble in swinging sex. In The Last of Sheila (1973), she did a fine, funny job as a bitchy Hollywood talent...