Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.19 No.2: Special issue – “Ageing and eldership”
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 156
- Category :
Attachment Theory - Category 2 :
Journals & Periodicals - Catalogue No : 98506
Table of Contents
Special issue: “Ageing and eldership”
EDITORIAL
“Without tenderness, we are in hell” by Kate Brown
ARTICLES
– Geriatric psychoanalysis: The impact of longevity on the mental health profession by Brett Kahr
– Elders and lightning rods by Sue Wright
– The growth and change in my professional and personal life as I age: The cost of being a psychotherapist and mortality by Gülcan Sutton Purser
– Being an older psychotherapist by Jim Pye
– Making meaning through the looking glass by Tamar Posner
– Part I—Embracing eldership across the lifespan: Valuing the rags of the elderly and the new wardrobe of the young by Caroline Adewole
– Part II—Eldership, attachment, and intercultural dynamics by Caroline Adewole
– The gifts of ageing and the Japanese art of Kintsugi by Philippa Smethurst
– Eldership and radical acceptance by Tom Higgins
– Prelude
– Attachment, trauma, and organisations by Mark Linington
– Infant attachment and the origins of dissociative processes: An approach based on the evolutionary theory of multiple motivational systems by Giovanni Liotti
– My marmalade passion—or, remembering Proust’s gloves: Poetry, creativity, and the unconscious by Alan Buckley
– Poetry
BOOK REVIEWS
– Is It Too Late? Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing edited by Gabriele Junkers
Reviewed by Pat Tate
– How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reviewed by Pat Tate
– Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton
Reviewed by Sally Rose
– The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies her Patient’s Journey into Dementia by Maxine Anderson
Reviewed by Sue Wright
– Life and Death: Our Relationship with Ageing, Dementia, and Other Fates of Time by Andrew Balfour
Reviewed by Sue Wright
– Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling by Gwyneth Lewis
Reviewed by Christian Howes

