Looking into Later Life : a Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age / Rachael Davenhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davenhill, Rachael, author.

Contributor:

Davenhill, Rachael, 1958-

Tavistock Clinic.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy for older people.

Psychoanalysis.

Dementia--Treatment.

Dementia.

Depression in old age--Treatment.

Depression in old age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

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. It does not aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the whole field of either old age or psychoanalysis, but to share an approach to thinking useful to clinical psychologists and psychotherapists working with people coming for consultation and intensive psychoanalytic treatment in the latter part of the lifespan. Though each chapter is different and stands in its own right, there are certain psychoanalytic concepts that appear and reappear again and again. Specifically these are the concepts of transference, countertransference, and projective identification, which are the theoretical and clinical bedrock on which psychoanalytic psychotherapy rests. Each chapter provides a different lens to the reader that will broaden and deepen understanding of such core concepts and their straightforward applicability in strengthening the quality of treatment. 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. Part of The Tavistock Clinic Series"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; SERIES EDITORS PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Introduction; PART I OVERVIEW: PAST AND PRESENT; CHAPTER 1: Developments in psychoanalytic thinking and in therapeutic attitudes and services; PART II MAINLY DEPRESSION; CHAPTER 2: The metapsychology of depression; CHAPTER 3: Assessment; CHAPTER 4: Individual psychotherapy; CHAPTER 5: Couples psychotherapy: separateness or separation? An account of work with a couple entering later life; CHAPTER 6: "Tragical-comical-historical-pastoral": groups and group therapy in the third age

CHAPTER 7: The experience of an illness: the resurrection of an analysis in the work of recoveryPART III OBSERVATION AND CONSULTATION; CHAPTER 8: Psychodynamic observation and old age; CHAPTER 9: Consultation at work; CHAPTER 10: Where angels fear to tread: idealism, despondency, and inhibition in thought in hospital nursing; PART IV MAINLY DEMENTIA; CHAPTER 11: Only connect- the links between early and later life; CHAPTER 12: No truce with the furies: issues of containment in the provision of care for people with dementia and those who care for them

CHAPTER 13: Facts, phenomenology, and psychoanalytic contributions to dementia careCHAPTER 14: The pink ribbon; CHAPTER 15: Caring for a relative with dementia- who is the sufferer?; CHAPTER 16: My unfaithful brain- a journey into Alzheimers Disease; CHAPTER 17: Conveying the experience of Alzheimers Disease through art: the later paintings of William Utermohlen; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-332) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91582-9

0-429-90159-3

0-429-47682-5

1-283-06931-8

9786613069313

1-84940-566-2

9780429476822

OCLC:

723944652