Psychotherapie im Alter

Systemic Therapy (ST) was approved as an evidence-based psychotherapy approach for adults in Germany in 2020, making it eligible for reimbursement through statutory health insurance. ST focuses on the interaction between an index patient’s...

The communication with older patients from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds is frequently characterised by misunderstandings. In order to ensure that the social background of many patients does not become an obstacle, it is imperative that...

In discussions about psychotherapy of older people, it is often argued that it is more important to deal with current age-specific conflicts than to work through unconscious complexes originating in childhood. Psychoanalytic treatments sui generis...

Based on his own experiences as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in the social psychiatric reform movement in the Kassel region and on his teaching and research experience as a university lecturer in social therapy at the University of Kassel, the...

The author describes opportunities and risks of internal rehabilitation of handicapped older clients from the perspective of the double role as social worker and superior.