title: [What is dementia? 7. The psychoanalyst, the demented patient and his disease].
abstract: Relations between psychoanalysis and dementia are discussed according to the regression of the thought and of the psychic organisation, then to psychotherapy, either individual with patients at the first stages of the disease, or later as family and conjugal therapy.
authors.affiliation: Département de gérontopsychiatrie rive gauche, CH Saint Jean de Dieu, Lyon. pmcharazac@ch-st-jean-de-dieu-lyon.fr
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Charazac
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy