IPA in Health and IPA's Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Ageing Committees present an online webinar:
Only the Others are Old? Psychoanalysis and Ageing: Awareness, Denial, Acceptance
2 March 2025 | 16:00 – 19:00 UK Time
This webinar will be in English.
The IPA in Health and IPA's Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Ageing Committee invites you to participate in the upcoming webinar “Only the Others are Old? Psychoanalysis and Aging: Awareness, Denial, Acceptance”
This webinar will approach the topic of aging as a developmental process. Psychoanalysis can help to understand this process on an individual and social level. We know that psychoanalysis is a very good treatment option for the elderly despite what common belief may hold.
As Dementia is one of the most feared conditions of old age we will address this with respect to psychoanalysis.
The webinar will be moderated by Debra Zatz (Washington DC) and Drew Tillotson (San Francisco).
1. Aging - a Developmental Phase in the Course of Life presented by Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista (Rio de Janeiro) and Liliana Nora Singman de Vogelfanger (Buenos Aires)
Aging is present in our lives, both globally with the increase in life expectancy and population aging, and in our private experience. It can be defined as an evolution that leads the organism from birth to death. In middle age we begin to face physical, psychical and social change; we come into contact with our own passage of time and the limit of life what requires specific psychological work. It is possible to think of old age as an ongoing and constant process of subjectivation and development. So, we invite everyone to think about the losses, challenges and gains in this moment of life.
2. Dementia presented by Christiane Schrader (Frankfurt) and Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista (Rio de Janeiro)
Dementia is a syndrome that is responsible for the progressive impairment of cognitive functioning, memory, language, and orientation to space and time. These changes, which progress slowly at first, may be experienced as very shameful, gradually leading to increasing dependence and deterioration in previous levels of functioning. The consequences may present as resentment, melancholy, sadness and depressive reactions on the part of those affected. Although rational thinking and communication gradually diminish, the ability to communicate emotionally, para-linguistically and in a coordinated and supported way is maintained for a long time. In the webinar, we will speak about dementia from the patients´, relatives´ and caregivers' perspective.
3. Psychoanalysis with Old Patients presented by Eike Hinze (Berlin)
Despite worldwide demographic changes and an increase of elderly people in the population it is still not so easy for an elderly person to find a suitable psychotherapist let alone an analyst. How can we understand this reluctance of psychoanalysts to treat old patients? I will address this question and also demonstrate that treating elderly patients psychoanalytically is a rewarding experience for both, patient and analyst.
Register for your free place by clicking on the link below. If you are unable to attend the live session but would like to receive a recording, please continue to register, and a recording will be automatically emailed to you once the live session has ended.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k8s2HxMBT_eJkKxVjYVQAw
We look forward to your participation in this exciting webinar and hope to see you there.
Eike Hinze
Chair of the Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aging Committee.