Resistances to Psychotherapy with the Elderly
Abstract
The resistances of psychotherapists to working with elderly patients are described and categorized as representing either cognitive misunderstandings of the phenomenology of aging or empathic failures which protect therapists from painful features of their past, present, or future. These resistances contribute to a myth regarding the unavailability of the elderly patient for psychotherapeutic explorations.
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