Psychoanalysis in old age; when the body becomes biography and narration.
Keywords:
tercera edad, duelo, depresión, analizabilidad, narcicismo, material clínicoAbstract
Population over 65 years old has been increasing worldwide in the last decades. So has increased psychoanalytic consultation of elderly people. This paper approaches the possible advantages of such psychoanalytic treatments in persons who have surpassed middle-age crisis and are in the process of aging. The author emphasizes on the conflicts between the projects born from ideals and what was or still can be achieved, and on setting aspirations into a new perspective. The author also brings up depression and mourning for losses that have occurred as well as for the diminishing of body functions and the harm and loss on the image of the body from the youth. A clinical vignette from an analysis illustrates these ideas.
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