New Techniques in the Psychotherapy of Older Patients (Hardcover)

This work shows the variety of psychotherapeutic methods used with older patients, offering a clinical as well as a theoretical look at these treatments. Following a section outlining time-limited therapies, the book deals with shorter- and longer-term techniques that are used in the geriatrician's and psychotherapist's offices, as well as in the general hospital, the nursing home and the chronic mental hospital. Finally, it describes new approaches and new patient populations with whom longer-term treatments, such as group therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are currently being applied.