Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness - Greenberg, Tamara McClintock; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
When the Body Intrudes: Psychotherapy with Older and Medically Ill Adults -- Psychoanalytic theory and the body -- Applying psychodynamic concepts to aging and medically ill patients -- Aging and the medically ill: An increasing population.-Technology, Idealization, and Unconscious Dynamics in the Culture of Medicine -- The hypomanic culture of medicine -- Patient expectations in medicine -- Technology and idealization -- Looking for love (and a cure): Medical relationships.-The Trauma of Medical Illness -- The mental health clinician and medical patients -- Medical illness as adult onset trauma -- Past trauma in the context of aging and illness.-Narcissistic Aspects of Aging and Illness -- The concept of narcissism within psychodynamic theory -- The "mid-life crisis".-Transference and Countertransference in Aging and Illness -- Transference and implications for older and medically ill patients -- Countertransference feelings in working with medical patients.-Self-destructive Behaviors, Masochistic Dynamics, and Illness -- Psychodynamic ideas on masochism -- Masochism and the body -- Cognitive Changes and Implications for the Therapeutic Encounter -- Cognitive impairment in the elderly -- Normal physical changes related to aging -- Psychotherapy with cognitively impaired adults.-What We Know and What We Don't: The Influence of Psychological Factors on Medical Illness -- Heart disease -- Osteoporosis -- Cancer -- Child Abuse -- The meaning of the research on psychological factors and medical risk.-Hope and Grief: The Introduction of an Emotional Language -- Alexithymia: Adaptive aspects of psychic detachment -- Alexithymia and hysteria -- Trauma, the sense of self and therapeutic action -- (Epilogue) Resilience in the elderly and medically ill.
Keywords: Clinical psychology; Psychiatry; Aging; Social work; Clinical Psychology; Psychiatry; Aging; Social Work