Psychotherapy with the Elderly: Becoming Methuselah's Echo / Edition 1

by George Bouklas

Overview

Methuselah is the elderly patient and Echo is the admiring soul, the therapist, who gives Methuselah back to himself by joining, mirroring, and reflecting in the course of creating a treatment alliance. Dr. Bouklas brings transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to bear on the existential problems of old and late old age, promoting a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly, of regression in the service of transcendence. He demonstrates how to implement and integrate these approaches in the spirit of increasing patient self-awareness, and his vivid examples reveal the inspiration and wisdom to be gained by working with the elderly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765700513
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.17(d)

Editorial Reviews

George Bouklas has written a powerful and provocative book on treating elderly people, weaving together psychodynamic, behavioral, and systemic thinking with a healthy measure of ethereal philosophy and mythology.

Contemporary Psychology: The APA Review Of Books

George Bouklas has written a powerful and provocative book on treating elderly people, weaving together psychodynamic, behavioral, and systemic thinking with a healthy measure of ethereal philosophy and mythology.

Contemporary Psychology: The Apa Review Of Books

Demonstrates how to integrate transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to deal with the existential problems of old and late old age and to promote a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly. Explains how to resolve resistances to contemplation and return elderly patients to a maturational path on which they can face the realities of aging. Echoing refers to joining, mirroring, and reflecting, therapeutic techniques that enable patients to grow in self-awareness. Includes case examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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