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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 128, No. 12

Articles | June 01, 1972

Psychodynamic Considerations of Aging and the Aged: An Overview

MARTIN A. BEREZIN

Am J Psychiatry 1972;128:1483-1491.

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Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Training Analyst, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; and on the staff of McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., and Beth Israel Hospital, Boston

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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Until recently aging and the aged tended not only to be neglected but to be subject to misconceptions and myths. In this overview the author points out that most of the elderly are emotionally healthy persons who retain the same drives and ego operations that served them earlier. However, old age does precipitate special problems, which the author describes. He discusses psychotherapy and somatic therapies as they apply to the aged, as well as death and dying and the problems faced by the families of elderly persons.

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