Psychologia starości w ujęciu psychoanalitycznym i perspektywy psychoterapeutyczne

• Authors: Przewłocka-Alves Anna

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Psychology of Old Age: Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Psychology of old age is a new field that attempts to explain the functioning of the psyche during the final stages of life. Psychoanalysis was initially very skeptical towards older patients, but faced with increasing number of senior adults, the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis had to adapt, searching for explanations and answers aimed at understanding human aging. The goal of geriatric psychotherapy is to assist elderly individuals in their psychological mentalization, including the mental process of mourning their "self," which goes through a difficult period of losses, so that they do not fall into psychosomatic symptoms or depression. Psychotherapy can thus support a positive sense of identity.

Keywords

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psychotherapy; elderly individuals; depression; psychological mentalization

• Publisher: Ewangelikalna Wyższa Szkoła Teologiczna we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Theologica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10. Widoki na starość. Interdyscyplinarne studia gerontologiczne
• Pages: 27-36

Contributors

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Przewłocka-Alves Anna