Group psychotherapy with the elderly: dealing with loss and death.
Resolution of issues around loss and death are seen as an important developmental task for the elderly. Group psychotherapy can lessen social isolation and provide the opportunity to work on issues of loss and death in the here-and-now. An inpatient geriatric group conducted by the author is discussed.
D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D003379:Countertransference; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011385:Projection; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology