Psychotherapy with the elderly
Subtitle: becoming Methuselah's echo
By: George Bouklas.
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Psychotherapy for older people.; Psychotherapist and patient.; Older people -- Mental health.; Maturation (Psychology); Nursing home patients -- Mental health.
Description: Methuselah is the elderly patient and Echo is the admiring soul, the therapist, who gives Methuselah back to himself by joining, mirroring, and reflecting in the course of creating a treatment alliance. Dr. Bouklas brings transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to bear on the existential problems of old and late old age, promoting a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly, of regression in the service of transcendence.

He demonstrates how to implement and integrate these approaches in the spirit of increasing patient self-awareness, and his vivid examples reveal the inspiration and wisdom to be gained by working with the elderly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-358) and index.