On loneliness and the ageing process.
In this paper I have focused attention on a particular group of patients who by the very nature of their narcissistic disorder often do not seek help until they are elderly. I have indicated through clinical material the nature of intrapsychic conflicts, a failure to achieve and work through depressive anxieties that interfere with the successful resolution of problems related to mourning; this does not allow for adequate adaptation to ageing and poses problems with regard to the evaluation and prognosis of such patients for psychoanalytic therapy.
D000375:Aging; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009289:Narcissism; D011379:Prognosis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D012934:Social Isolation; D014167:Transference, Psychology