Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Greenberg, Tamara (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Aging.; Social work.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Social Work.

"In Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness, Tamara McClintock Greenberg provides the medical and psychological community with an exceptionally incisive and truly groundbreaking tour de force. Dr. Greenberg has illuminated the factors implicated in health and illness with a clear and co...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.