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Berezin, M.A. (1986). Dynamic Therapy of the Older Patient: By Wayne A. Myers, M.D. New York/London: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1984. 257 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 55:517-519.

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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:517-519

Dynamic Therapy of the Older Patient: By Wayne A. Myers, M.D. New York/London: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1984. 257 pp.

Martin A. Berezin Author Information

Dynamic therapy for older people is an idea whose time has finally arrived. I mean simply that in view of the recent explosion of interest in geriatric psychiatry, this information, which was known only to a few of us in the past, is now known to a very large and receptive audience. Psychoanalysis and dynamic therapy for old people has finally emerged from the closet.

There has been some trepidation that the recent explosion which has made geriatric psychiatry fashionable might lead to the entrance into the field of untrained, "instant," overnight geriatricians. Indeed there are such people, but Wayne Myers is not one of them. His case reports indicate that he has had years of intensive work with the elderly, and his theoretical formulations reveal the depth of his studies.

Today's acceptance of dynamic therapy for older people has a rocky history, beginning with Freud's feeling that psychoanalysis was not helpful for patients over fifty. As Myers points out in his review of the

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