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Title Looking into later life : a psychoanalytic approach to depression and dementia in old age / edited by Rachael Davenhill
Published London : Karnac, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 343 pages) : illustrations
Series Tavistock Clinic series
Tavistock Clinic series.
Contents Developments in psychoanalytic thinking and in therapeutic attitudes and services / Rachael Davenhill -- The metapsychology of depression / Cyril Couve -- Assessment / Rachael Davenhill -- Individual psychotherapy / Rachel Davenhill -- Couples psychotherapy: separateness or separation? An account of work with a couple entering later life / Anne Amos and Andrew Balfour -- "Tragical-comical-historical-pastoral": groups and group therapy in the third age / Caroline Garland -- The experience of an illness: the resurrection of an analysis in the work of recovery / Ronald Markillie -- Psychodynamic observation and old age / Rachael Davenhill, Andrew Balfour, Margaret Rustin -- Consultation at work / Maxine Dennis and David Armstrong -- Where angels fear to tread: idealism, despondency, and inhibition in thought in hospital nursing / Anna Dartington -- Only connect--the links between early and later life / Margot Waddell -- No truce with the furies: issues of containment in the provision of care for people with dementia and those who care for them / Rachel Davenhill -- Facts, phenomenology, and psychoanalytic contributions to dementia care / Andrew Balfour -- The pink ribbon / A.S. Byatt -- Caring for a relative with dementia--who is the sufferer? / Heather Wood -- My unfaithful brain--a journey into Alzheimer's Disease / Anna Dartington and Rebekah Pratt -- Conveying the experience of Alzheimer's Disease through art: the later paintings of William Utermohlen / Patrice Polini
Summary Looking into Later Life aims to bring alive the relevance and value of psychoanalytic concepts in supporting the core role of those working directly in services for people who are older. The book will also be of interest to analysts and psychotherapists concerned with old age and the application of psychoanalytic thinking in the public sector
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Psychotherapy for older people.
Psychoanalysis.
Dementia -- Treatment
Depression in old age -- Treatment
Older people.
Depressive Disorder -- therapy
Aged
Dementia -- therapy
Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods
psychoanalysis.
elderly.
MEDICAL -- Geriatrics.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Gerontology.
Older people
Dementia -- Treatment
Depression in old age -- Treatment
Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy for older people
Psychoanalyse
Senile Demenz
Alter
Form Electronic book
Author Davenhill, Rachael, 1958-
Tavistock Clinic.
LC no. 2008399890
ISBN 9781849405669
1849405662
1283069318
9781283069311