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.
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 -- "Tragicalcomicalhistoricalpastoral": 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 connectthe 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 dementiawho
is the sufferer? -- My unfaithful braina journey into Alzheimers Disease --
Conveying the experience of Alzheimers Disease through art: the later
paintings of William Utermohlen
Davenhill, Rachael
