Psychotherapie im Alter

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...

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...

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...

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...

Medical advances have led to a longer life expectancy for patients with advanced cancer. Patients and their caregivers are thus confronted with the existential tension between hope and uncertainty. Patients often experience existential fears of...

How do older people experience retirement? What particular mental health risks do they associate with this stage of life? These questions are the focus of this article. From the perspective of the age group concerned, three categories that are...

The transition to post-working life is one of the most significant experiences of early old age. Although it is visible in therapeutic practice as a particularly crisis-prone phase, it is difficult to scientifically assess how people experience and...

This article understands young old age as a phase of potential late freedom. It is based on psychological concepts of transitional phases and developmental tasks. Retirement from work is interpreted as a transitional phase characterized by a high...

This paper describes and reflects on several experiences in retirement after decades of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work, especially in the context of the simultaneous dynamics of aging. The central psychodynamic hypotheses are based on...

For those working in the medical-psychosocial field, the transition to retirement represents a complex biographical turning point that extends far beyond the end of gainful employment. The personal reflections provided by psychotherapists,...

For a long time, the transition to retirement was considered a negative critical life event. Today, empirical research paints a different picture: for the majority, the gains outweigh the losses. There is hardly any evidence of a decline in health...

The aim of this pilot study was to examine the association between anticipatory grief and the frequency and duration of everyday visits by family caregivers of people with dementia living in nursing homes, as well as to assess the mediating role of...