Elderly People in Psychotherapy: A Psychoanalyst’s Point of View
Quinodoz, Danielle
Elderly People in Psychotherapy: A Psychoanalyst’s Point of View - 2002.
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“Is it worthwhile going into psychoanalysis at 70?.” This was the patient’s manifest question. But the analyst understood its latent meaning: “Am I worth it?” So it is that Berthe began analysis and that the author became interested in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis of the elderly. This exciting experience revealed how Berthe’s wish to put the last part of her life together in a meaningful way can become one of the motives for the elderly to undertake psychotherapy.
Elderly People in Psychotherapy: A Psychoanalyst’s Point of View - 2002.
12
“Is it worthwhile going into psychoanalysis at 70?.” This was the patient’s manifest question. But the analyst understood its latent meaning: “Am I worth it?” So it is that Berthe began analysis and that the author became interested in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis of the elderly. This exciting experience revealed how Berthe’s wish to put the last part of her life together in a meaningful way can become one of the motives for the elderly to undertake psychotherapy.
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