title: The aging of Anna Freud's diagnostic profile: a re-examination and re-application of the psychoanalytic assessment for older adults.
abstract: In 1962 Anna Freud published her pioneering paper on the Diagnostic Profile, proposing a framework for organizing relevant clinical material and observations for the assessment of a child's inner world. Since that time, the Profile has been applied, with modifications, to work with babies, adolescents, adults, blind children, and others. This paper strives to demonstrate the Profile's applicability to a group often neglected in the psychoanalytic literature, namely the older population, a vibrant group frequently seeking psychotherapy and even psychoanalysis. A case study of a woman in her 70s is used to illustrate the advantages for clinicians of the Profile for a clearer understanding, both diagnostically and intrapsychically, of the older adult.
authors.affiliation: New York Freudian Society, USA.
authors.forename: Carola
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chase
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D011581:Psychological Tests