The Psychotherapy of the Elderly Self

ISBN-13: 9780876306574 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 240 str.

Hyman L. Muslin

Opis

This text offers a new approach to psychological assessment and psychotherapy of the elderly. Muslin describes old age as a natural development phase and presents a model of observation, diagnosis and therapy for working with the elderly. Case studies highlight issues that affect this population and demonstrate techniques that foster positive therapeutic results. Topics discussed include a definition of the elderly self; the development of the elderly; psychopathology and psychotherapy; the psychotherapies; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; and the inner world of the therapist.

Spis treści

FOREWORD BY BORIS ASTRACHAN, M.D., INTRODUCTION BY STANLEY H. CATH, M.D., 1. A Definition of the Elderly Self, 2. On the Development of the Elderly Self, 3. Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in the Elderly, 4. The Psychotherapies for the Elderly Self: Diagnoses and Plans, 5. The Supportive Psychotherapies, 6. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 7. Psychoanalysis in the Elderly, 8. The Inner World of the Therapist of the Elderly, 9. Epilogue, REFERENCES, NAME INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX

O autorze

Hyman L. Muslin, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is author of The Psychotherapy of the Self, with Eduardo R. Val, M.D., and Lyndon Johnson: The Tragic Self, a Psychohistorical Portrait, with Thomas Jobe, M.D.