Introduction: Toward Theories in Mental Health and Aging -- I. Well-Being, Adjustment, and Growth Behaviors in Later Life -- 1. Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life -- 2. Control: Cognitive and Motivational Implications -- 3. Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life: Defining Features and Dynamic Processes -- II. Stress, Coping, and Mental Health -- 4. Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults -- 5. Conservation of Resources, Stress, and Aging: Why Do Some Slide and Some Spring? -- 6. War Trauma and the Aged: An Israeli Perspective -- 7. Toward a Temporal-Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress: Placing Late-Life Stress Effects in a Life-Course Perspective -- III. The Adult Developing Self -- 8. The Double Voice of the Third Age: Splitting the Speaking Self as an Adaptive Strategy in Later Life -- 9. Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging: A Developmental Analysis of the Gerontological Curriculum -- 10. An Image of Aging and the Concept of Aintegration: Coping and Mental Health Implications -- IV. Psychodynamics and Psychopathology in Later Life -- 11. Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging: Creating New Meanings within Narratives of Lived Experience -- 12. The Psychoimmune System in Later Life: The Problem of the Late-Onset Disorders -- 13. Uses of the Past in Adult Psychological Health: Objective, Historical, and Narrative Realities -- V. The Family in Later Life -- 14. Perspectives on the Family and Stress in Late Life -- 15. A Frame of Reference for Guiding Research Regarding the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health in Aging Families -- 16. Multigenerational Families and Mental Illness in Late Life -- 17. Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes toward Family Responsibility and Well-Being in Later Years -- VI. Memory and Dementia -- 18. The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations -- 19. Age-Related Cognitive Decline and the Dementia Threshold -- 20. Education and Dementia -- VII. Depression and Aging -- 21. Depression as a Pivotal Component in Secondary Aging: Opportunities for Research, Treatment, and Prevention -- 22. The Variability of Depression in Old Age: Narrative as an Integrative Construct -- 23. Aging and Behavioral Medicine: A Triaxial Model -- Epilogue: Future Perspectives.