Psychotherapie im Alter

Due to a recent study, one in two elderly individuals had experienced at least one mental disorder in their lifetime and nearly one in four currently have a mental disorder. The majority of geropsychiatric patients lives in the community and is...

Mental health strategies in old age necessitate inter-professional and inter-disciplinary approaches. Changes in mobility and comorbidity as well as the increasing demand of daily assistance cause challenges to the old age health care. Early disease...

The specialized treatment of an experienced trauma and its psychopathological consequences in old age can make the identification and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in older adults a challenge. Additionally, the early...

The author’s master program »Gerontological Sciences« discussed primarily technical and theoretical subjects. The application of the knowledge and the practical work missed out. Therefore, he decided to work in practice for a certain period of...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental distress has increased in older people. Transdiagnostic factors such as trauma, personality traits, mentalization and emotion regulation are relevant for the development and maintenance of mental...

The introduction of the alternative DSM-5-model of personality disorders and the latest changes regarding the ICD-11 point out the implementation of dimensional personality models in terms of classification systems. This movement predestines for a...

Personality disorders in old age have so far received little attention in clinical practice and research. However, recent epidemiological studies now show that they are more common than previously assumed, which applies in particular to...

Against the background of the new ICD-11 diagnosis, starting points for therapeutic work are presented in an integrative methodological manner. The therapeutic handling of suicidality plays a role here, as does the improvement of a controlled...

An illness leading to death is a borderline experience that is difficult to bear. It is accompanied by fear, impotent rage and offence. This particular existential challenge becomes even more acute in patients with narcissistically accentuated...

This paper will address the following questions: What does ageism mean? What is problematic about ageism? What are the origins of ageism? Do older people feel discriminated against because of their age (or not)? How can we reduce ageism in society?

The author describes age-hostile aspects of everyday architecture by stressing passive-aggressive tendencies. A psycho-historical classification and ways of change are shown.

Every person is vulnerable and exposed to violence in public, family and institutional areas. For older people, the fragility is significantly greater and the vulnerability is also higher than for younger people. If you want to understand violence...

During the last years the situation of people of same sex orientation has become better. Nevertheless lesbians, gays, and bisexuals meet hostility in our society. It appears in prejudices and distorted pictures about them, pathologizing their sexual...

The internal and external enemies of aging are described and reflected using the term of tertiary narcissism, which J. Kipp had defined in 1992 as specific narcissism of old age. However, the destructive and autodestructive dimensions of this form...