title: [Psychotherapy with elderly patients. Experiences from a psychiatric psychotherapeutic consultation service].
abstract: Experiences with psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy with the elderly have been made in a psychiatric consultation service at a general hospital. The life-long importance of psychodynamically relevant conflicts is illustrated by two case examples of psychosomatic patients with asthma and functional symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract. The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly. Special problems of psychotherapy with older patients in a psychiatric consultation service and implications for the routine medical treatment of general-hospital patients are discussed.
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authors.lastname: Schiller
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Psychotherapie bei älteren Patienten. Erfahrungen aus einem psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutischen Konsiliardienst.