Life and Death - Andrew Balfour

Life and Death

Our Relationship with Ageing, Dementia, and Other Fates of Time

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
222 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63648-1 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
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. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of developmental challenge for us all.
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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2025
Reihe/Serie The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-63648-3 / 1032636483
ISBN-13 978-1-032-63648-1 / 9781032636481
Zustand Neuware
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