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Therapy with the elderly — introducing psychodynamic psychotherapy to the multi-disciplinary team
Author(s)	Julian M Stern, Simon Lovestone
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol l5, no 6, June 2000
Pages	pp 500-505
Keywords	Psychiatric treatment ; Psychology [care] ; Medical workers ; Multi disciplinary.
Annotation	Psychotherapy with older people has tended to be restricted to family or behavioural paradigms with some contribution from cognitive approaches, but at least until recently, with very little input from psychodynamic therapy. The reasons for this are discussed and include both patient and therapist factors. Freud himself was pessimistic regarding the prospects of working with older people, a viewpoint he changed as he aged. As the discipline of old age psychiatry also matures, there may be increasing scope for collaboration between the old age psychiatry multi-disciplinary teams and psychodynamically oriented therapists. The authors describe one model of such collaboration, a weekly case discussion seminar, conducted in an acute admission old age psychiatry in-patient unit. The role of the seminar in discussing difficult cases is described, and a case discussed to illustrate the work. Recommendations are made for broadening the scope of the work. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000823222 A
Classmark	LP: QN: QT: 3DM
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