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Psychodynamic Treatment of the Elderly

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Aging and Drug Therapy

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Among diagnostic and treatment methods which are becoming more numerous every year in geriatric clinics, the use of psychodynamic know-how, i. e. psychoanalysis, in the investigation and therapy of mental troubles remains unusual. This is in contrast with the almost exclusive use that one makes of it in adult and child psychiatry.

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  1. Depts. of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland

    I. Simeone (Psychiatrist, Assistant Director of Geneva Institute of Geriatry)

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  1. Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    G. Barbagallo-Sangiorgi

  2. School of Medicine, University College London, London, England

    A. N. Exton-Smith

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Simeone, I. (1984). Psychodynamic Treatment of the Elderly. In: Barbagallo-Sangiorgi, G., Exton-Smith, A.N. (eds) Aging and Drug Therapy. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2791-2_13

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