Life and Death

Our Relationship with Ageing, Dementia, and Other Fates of Time
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63646-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

Life and Death considers ageing and mortality from a psychoanalytic perspective and from the point of view of the individual, the couple, and the family.

Andrew Balfour’s approach focuses on understanding the challenges of late life and what might help us to continue to live our lives, and inhabit our relationships, as creatively as possible. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of developmental challenge for us all, through closely written accounts of the experiences of older people, as well as wider social-contextual issues. It locates itself at the interface of internal and external realities, exploring the lived experience of some of the most difficult things we can face in old age, such as dementia and other age-related illnesses and losses.

Life and Death will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists in practice and in training. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in ageing and the challenges of late life.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balfour, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Gerontopsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction



Chapter 1

Ageing in Body and Mind: The Challenges of Living a Long Life



Chapter 2

Intimacy and Sexuality in Later Life



Chapter 3

Another Country? Migration, Displacement, and Internal Dislocation in Old Age



Chapter 4

How to Think about the Experience of Dementia? The Importance of the Unconscious Mind



Chapter 5

The Fragile Thread of Connection: Living as a Couple with Dementia



Chapter 6

Working Psychotherapeutically with Couples who are Living with Dementia



Chapter 7

At Home in a Home? Institutional Care and the ‘Unheimlich’



Chapter 8

Dying and Assisted Death

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Balfour trained as a clinical psychologist at University College London and then as an adult psychotherapist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust. He subsequently trained as a couple psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships, where for more than 10 years he was Clinical Director before becoming Chief Executive in 2016.