Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0286-3 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.