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Overview
Methuselah is the elderly patient and Echo is the admiring soul, the therapist, who gives Methuselah back to himself by joining, mirroring, and reflecting in the course of creating a treatment alliance. Dr. Bouklas brings transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to bear on the existential problems of old and late old age, promoting a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly, of regression in the service of transcendence. He demonstrates how to implement and integrate these approaches in the spirit of increasing patient self-awareness, and his vivid examples reveal the inspiration and wisdom to be gained by working with the elderly.
The theraputic action of echoing, the gift of understanding, the experience of dying, managing & trmt, contemplation, etc
Synopsis
Methuselah is the elderly patient and Echo is the admiring soul, the therapist, who gives Methuselah back to himself by joining, mirroring, and reflecting in the course of creating a treatment alliance. Dr. Bouklas brings transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to bear on the existential problems of old and late old age, promoting a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly, of regression in the service of transcendence. He demonstrates how to implement and integrate these approaches in the spirit of increasing patient self-awareness, and his vivid examples reveal the inspiration and wisdom to be gained by working with the elderly.
Booknews
Demonstrates how to integrate transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to deal with the existential problems of old and late old age and to promote a vision of healthy narcissism in the frail and ill elderly. Explains how to resolve resistances to contemplation and return elderly patients to a maturational path on which they can face the realities of aging. Echoing refers to joining, mirroring, and reflecting, therapeutic techniques that enable patients to grow in self-awareness. Includes case examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.