Psychotherapie im Alter

Based on a personal example, insecurities in one’s own selfand identity-regulation as well as national and international radicalizations are shown using concrete current references. The compensation of identity insecurities leads individually and...

Based on several courses of treatment the author describes internal and external conflicts of elder citizens of the former GDR in Western Germany. Those patients, aged between 60 and 85 years, have moved to Western Germany at different times....

The author describes how he was promoted and supported as a student who was compliant with the political system in the »actually existing socialism« in the former GDR during the 1980s and how he then got into conflict with the force of the system...

35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, memories of the time of upheaval are awakened, accompanied by initial euphoria, later scepticism and also uncertainty. In each case, this is combined with the necessary adaptation, in some cases more, in...