1st Edition

Is It Too Late? Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing

By Gabriele Junkers Copyright 2006
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together a selection of classic psychoanalytical papers related to ageing, dying and death that have appeared in the renowned International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP). Two papers address the analysis of an elderly patient directly and bring the work and the challenges it brings vividly to life. Also explored are such issues as death and the midlife crisis, loneliness and the... Read more
Series Preface , Editor’s Preface , Foreword , Death and the mid-life crisis , On loneliness and the ageing process , Comments on Dr Norman A. Cohen’s paper: “On loneliness and the ageing process” , On ageing and psychopathology—discussion of Dr Norman A. Cohen’s paper “On loneliness and the ageing process” , Fear of death—notes on the analysis of an old man , The analysis of an elderly patient , The life cycle as indicated by the nature of the transference in the psychoanalysis of the middle-aged and elderly , The older analysand: countertransference issues in psychoanalysis , The final stage of the dying process , On the generational cycle—an address*

Biography

Gabriele Junkers