[Psychotherapy with elderly patients].
Psychotherapy of the elderly is a necessary, however also difficult task for the therapist. The increasing number of mental problems in the elderly leads to the fact, that therapists of different basic training and different direction occupy themselves with different aspects of psychopathology in the elderly. Their variable experiences show that there could be different methods of working with the elderly, both in the clinic and in the private practice. The existing sources of literature are encouraging, even if some authors can see only minimal changes of the mental condition in the case of an deteriorating organic disturbance. The evaluation of the used psychotherapeutical methods have been only sporadically performed. A continuation of the methodological research in this area is necessary.
Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Basel.
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Krebs
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012803:Sick Role
Psychotherapie im Alter.