Talking over the years : a handbook of dynamic psychotherapy with older adults / / edited by Sandra Evans and Jane Garner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785799803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hove ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 9786610051472; 1-135-48091-5; 1-280-05147-7; 0-203-50166-7; 0-203-61966-8; 1-283-54649-3; 9786613858948; 1-135-48092-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EvansSandra; GarnerJane, FRCPsych
• Disciplina: 618.97689
• Soggetti: Aged -- Psychology; Aged; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic theory; Psychodynamic psychotherapy; Psychotherapy for older people; Psychotherapy for the aged; Psychotherapy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Talking Over the Years: A Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Theoretical frameworks; 1. Old and new: Freud and others; 2. Loneliness in old age: Klein and others; 3. On becoming an old man: Jung and others; 4. Attachment in old age: Bowlby and others; 5. The old self: Kohut, Winnicott and others; 6. Growing into old age: ; Erikson and others; 7. Group psychotherapy: Foulkes, Yalom and Bion; 8. Inpatient dynamics: Thinking, feeling and understanding; 9. Ethical aspects of psychotherapy and clinical work with older adultsPart II: Clinical applications; 10. Individual psychotherapy in the second half of life; 11. Brief psychodynamic therapy with older people; 12. Art therapy with older people; 13. Music therapy; 14. Dance and movement therapy for people with severe dementia; 15. Dementia; 16. Elderly couples and their families; 17. Sexuality; 18. Bereavement; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can we work effectively with older people?What contribution can be made by the field of psychodynamics?It is now recognised that older adults can benefit from psychodynamic therapy and that psychodynamic concepts can help to illuminate the thorny issues of aging and the complications of later life.Talking Over the Years begins by examining how ideas of old age are represented by the key psychodynamic theorists of the twentieth century including Freud, Jung, Klein and Winnicott. Contributors go on to draw on their own experiences in a range of settings to de