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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828668803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove ; ; New York, NY, : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansSandra

GarnerJane, FRCPsych

Disciplina

618.97/689

Soggetti

Psychotherapy for older people

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Old and new: Freud and others / Rachael Davenhill -- Loneliness in old age: Klein and others / Noel Hess -- On becoming an old man: Jung and others / Lorenzo Bacelle -- Attachment in old age: Bowlby and others / Sandra Evans -- The old self: Kohut, Winnicott and others / Sandra Evans -- Growing into old age: Erikson and others / Jane Garner -- Group psychotherapy: Foulkes, Yalom, Bion / Sandra Evans -- Inpatient dynamics: thinking, feeling, and understanding / Roger Wesby -- Ethical aspects of psychotherapy and clinical work with older adults / Mark Ardern -- Individual psychotherapy in the second half of life / Joan Reggiori -- Brief psychodynamic therapy with older people / Sian Critchley-Robbins -- Art therapy with older people / Kimberley Smith -- Music therapy / Rachel Darnley-Smith -- Dance and movement



therapy for people with severe dementia / Marion Violets-Gibson -- Dementia / Jane Garner -- Elderly couples and their families / Sandra Evans -- Sexuality / Jane Garner, Lorenzo Bacelle -- Bereavement / Rosamund Oliver, Erdinch Suleiman.

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