Psychotherapie im Alter

In its changes, functional disorders, illnesses and – finally – death, the human body expresses an »intrinsic ageism«. A variety of interventions – from medication to implantation – can help to compensate for age related changes and...

Poverty in old age is rising in Germany. Older people in poverty have less health chances compared to older people better off. They live with multiple restrictions: in many cases, their housing conditions are precarious; their psychosocial, physical...

In the relationship between babyboomers and their adult children conflicts are breaking up: globally in the climate debate, socio-politically in retirement provisions, and personally in challenging patchwork-families. The babyboomers’ contemporary...

Based on social changes that may have contributed to gender diversity, especially among young people, I look back at how my views and attitudes as a sex and trans*gender therapist have changed over the past 30 years. To this end, I look at the...

Using three examples from the 20th century (the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Vietnam War), this text examines different forms of speaking and writing about war as an experience of violence, based on the analysis of letters, diaries...

Older people, especially very old men, are a high-risk group for suicide. There is empirical evidence that societal views on aging, according to which life in old age is deficient and less valuable, in combination with the normative expectation that...

Within general suicide prevention strategies, increasing attention is being paid to crossinstitutional services and measures. As places where potential suicide drugs are traded and specific forms of counseling are offered, pharmacies can make an...

This paper strives to contribute to the established view that close bridge-building among behavioral aging science/life-span developmental psychology and psychotherapeutic work with older adults deserve constant nurturing. The goal is to identify...

This article introduces the concept of »existential feeling«. This is intended to describe a task as well as a potential of the person – also in old age: to become aware of the foundations of personal existence, to step out of oneself and to...

In the past decades studies showed repeatedly that psychotherapeutic health care for older adults is insufficient in Germany. One reason might be the lack of theoretical and practical knowledge about psychotherapy in later life on the part of...

Theory of mind (ToM) is understood as a vital capacity in social interaction. While numerous findings prove a decrease of competence in old age, it is not clear which impact this has on the health-related aspects of quality of life. In a substudy of...