Psychodynamic Considerations of Aging and the Aged: An Overview

MARTIN A. BEREZINAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.12.1483

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Until recently aging and the aged tended not only to be neglected but to be subject to misconceptions and myths. In this overview the author points out that most of the elderly are emotionally healthy persons who retain the same drives and ego operations that served them earlier. However, old age does precipitate special problems, which the author describes. He discusses psychotherapy and somatic therapies as they apply to the aged, as well as death and dying and the problems faced by the families of elderly persons.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 12 • June 1972

Pages: 1483 - 1491

PubMed: 4554399

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Published in print: June 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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MARTIN A. BEREZIN

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training Analyst, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; and on the staff of McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., and Beth Israel Hospital, Boston

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Psychodynamic Considerations of Aging and the Aged: An Overview

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