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Psychoanalysis and dementia
— understanding disturbance and distress | | Author(s) | Ian Morton |
| Journal title | Journal of Dementia Care, vol 15, no 6, November/December 2007 |
| Publisher | Hawker Publications, November/December 2007 |
| Pages | pp 18-19 (2/3) |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Stress ; Behaviour disorders ; Psychiatric treatment. |
| Annotation | The author looks at how psychoanalytical concepts of anxiety and defence might help our understanding of distress and disturbance that some individuals experience in dementia. He uses a case study for an 84-year-old woman diagnosed as having a mixed Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia, to consider aspects of her behaviour in interactions with her key nurse. Defensiveness and 'global disorientation' (the author's name for alternative versions of reality) are among other characteristics met when working with people with dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071122204 A |
| Classmark | EA: QNH: EP: LP |
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