Growing old : a journey of self-discovery / Danielle Quinodoz ; translated by David Alcorn.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Routledge, 2009.Description: 1 v. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780415545662 (pbk.) :
- 9780415545655 (hbk.) :
- 9780415545662 (Paper)
- Vieillir, une decouverte. English
- 155.67 QUI
- BF724.55.A35 Q5613 2009
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 155.67 QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 209995 |
First published by Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconstructing one\'s own internal life-history -- One small second of eternity -- The work of remembering -- The phases of life -- Anxiety about death -- What lies behind the decline of very old people? -- Losing everything without losing oneself -- The resources of old age -- Strait is the gate -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and older people -- Psychoanalysis and elderly people -- Being a psychoanalyst and growing old -- Grandparents and the difference between generations -- The blue note and the discovery of loving.
In this study psychoanalyst Danielle Quinodoz highlights the values of old age. She draws not only on her clinical experience of working with the elderly, but also on her personal experience of growing old.
Translated from the French.