[The psychic dynamics in advanced old age].
Advanced old age is first approached according to mournings, dependency and traumatisms, by emphasizing normal and pathological defences of the ego, from functional denial until psychotic mechanisms and psychosomatic states.
Charazac
Pierre
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Pôle Intersectoriel de Gérontopsychiatrie, Centre Hospitalier Saint Jean de Dieu, Lyon, France. pmcharazac@arhm-sjd.fr
D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*