Volume 23 (2026), Issue 3

The paper starts with an effort to differentiate multiple deficit models of aging: (1) deficit model of cognitive aging, (2) deficit model generalized to aging at large, (3) deficit model seen as the dominance of negative age correlations, (4) aging...

In addition to the model of internalized age stereotypes, the individual image of aging can also be understood, from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a form of self-representation. This representation appears to depend on early object-relations...

Starting from the Beatles’ song When I’m Sixty-Four and contemporary findings on conceptions of later life, this paper explores the significance of Sehnsucht (life longing) in older adulthood. Drawing on Erikson’s developmental task of ego...

Based on the current rebellion of women against the devaluation caused by meno-pause and devalued images of aging in the second half of life, sustainable changes in the biopsychosocial process of menopause are presented. Furthermore, unconscious...

This article explores the scarcely conceptualized phenomenon of »grandmother transference« within psychoanalytic treatment, particularly in the context of the analyst’s aging. Drawing on clinical observations from the MODE study and integrating...