Looking into Later Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age

by Rachael Davenhill

Overview

This book belongs to a long tradition at the Tavistock Clinic of work focused on the mental and emotional well-being of the elderly. It applies psychoanalytic thinking to areas that have generally attracted very little sustained attention over the years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429915826
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/2018
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Davenhill, Rachael

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Looking into Later Life -- Introduction -- Overview: Past and Present -- Developments in psychoanalytic thinking and in therapeutic attitudes and services -- Mainly Depression -- The metapsychology of depression -- Assessment -- Individual psychotherapy -- Couples psychotherapy: separateness or separation? An account of work with a couple entering later life -- "Tragical–comical–historical–pastoral": groups and group therapy in the third age -- The experience of an illness: the resurrection of an analysis in the work of recovery -- Observation and Consultation -- Psychodynamic observation and old age -- Consultation at work -- Where angels fear to tread: idealism, despondency, and inhibition in thought in hospital nursing -- Mainly Dementia -- Only connect—the links between early and later life -- No truce with the furies: issues of containment in the provision of care for people with dementia and those who care for them -- Facts, phenomenology, and psychoanalytic contributions to dementia care -- The pink ribbon -- Caring for a relative with dementia—who is the sufferer? -- My unfaithful brain—a journey into Alzheimer’s Disease -- Conveying the experience of Alzheimer’s Disease through art: the later paintings of William Utermohlen