The Race Against Time: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in the Second Half of LifeThis is the second book in the pioneering investigation of adult develop ment by Robert A. Nemiroff and Calvin A. Colarusso. The first, Adult Development: A New Dimension in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice, ar rived to critical acclaim in 1981. It presented a psychodynamic theory of development during the second half of life and a model of normal adult functioning. This book is the logical sequel, expanding and elaborating the original formulations and applying them to the clinical practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Nemiroff and Colarusso demonstrate that these are appropriate techniques for patients in the second half of life, regardless of age. They lay to rest many stereotypes and myths that have long interfered with the dynamic treatment of older patients, and they propose exciting new conceptualizations such as that of adult develop mental arrests. The genetic approach reaches beyond childhood and adolescence and takes on important new meaning by incorporating an adult developmental past that influences both psychopathology and transference. The relationship between theory and therapy is richly demonstrated in the clinical presentations, including ten detailed case histories of pa tients between the ages of 40 and BO. These and other clinical discussions provide ample evidence that a psychodynamic approach that is based on a sound adult developmental psychology can be extraordinarily effective. They also demonstrate both the similarities and differences in working with older versus younger patients. This work is a major contribution in a long-neglected dimension of clinical psychiatry. SHERWYN M. |
Contents
An Overview | 1 |
NEW CONCEPTS IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT | 9 |
The Literature on Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in | 25 |
Adult Development and Psychoanalytic Diagnosis | 45 |
Adult Development and Transference | 59 |
With Reference to the Therapist | 73 |
CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS | 95 |
The Development of Intimacy at Age Fifty | 121 |
Discussion | 189 |
Psychotherapy with an EightyYearOld Patient | 195 |
Discussion | 205 |
Object Loss and Development in the Second Half of Life | 211 |
When a Husband Dies | 229 |
When a Wife Dies | 241 |
Aging in Relation | 263 |
Observations of | 293 |
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