title: How Senior Psychodynamic Psychiatrists Regard Retirement.
abstract: The variety of personal experiences and attitudes about professional work among psychodynamic psychiatrists who have attained retirement age are explored through semi-structured interviews. Of 21 members of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry interviewed, 6 report fulltime engagement in professional activity, 10 partial reduction, and 5 full retirement from practice. Through direct quotations from the respondents' interviews several matters are considered including the concept of retirement, structural changes in practice, health concerns, dream experience, spirituality and matters of legacy, how others have influenced attitudes toward continued work, and how fears of retirement are manifest among those currently in practice. Among the conclusions is the suggestion that the sense of self-regard and personal satisfaction of those who do retire is far greater than anticipated by those still in active practice.
authors.affiliation: Past-Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry [then the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry], former president of the Academy, Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
authors.forename: Douglas H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Ingram
authors.affiliation: Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry where he is serving as Trustee. He is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a former Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell Weill Department of Psychiatry, Westchester Division.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stine
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011570:Psychiatry; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce