My Story

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INTRODUCTION

• My Story
• Your Story

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Books I Recommend

• Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of Later
  Life A Narrative Approach to Understanding
  Romance. NY Oxford University Press.
• Fink, M. Electroconvulsive Therapy A Guide for
  Professionals and Their Patients. NY Oxford
  University Press.
• Nezu, A. et al. (2000) Practitioners Guide to
  Empirically Based Measures of Depression. NY
  Kluwer.
• Salzman, C. (2001). Psychiatric Medications for
  Older Adults. NY Guilford Press.

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Depression related to Aging

• Reactive Depression mild depressions that
  arise as a result of a loss or accumulations of
  losses.
• Clinical Depression out of proportion to the
  cause with symptoms that persist beyond the usual
  time and interfere with normal functioning.
• Endogenous Depression a state of deep
  melancholy unrelated to an obvious cause, which
  may be more severe and more frequent as they grow
  older.
• Involutional Depression associated with
  life-span problems and biological deterioration
  during the middle years that may be reactivated
  in old age.

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Issues related

• Genetics and Family
• Gender (Women more often than Men)
• Living Alone
• Physical Illness
• Medication
• Race
• SES
• SES ? Health ? Life Satisfaction

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Contemporary AnalysisNeeds

1. Inclusion the need to be recognized and to
   belong, to share experiences and ideas, to feel
   that the self is significant and worthwhile
2. Affection the need for intimate emotional
   attachments, to feel that the self is lovable for
   both nurturance and support
3. Control the need for public esteem in order to
   feel that the self is competent and responsible.

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Traditional AnalysisNeeds (Durkheim)

• Anomic
• (very rapid change in society)
• Egoistic (very
  Altruistic (very
• low level of
  high level
• solidarity)
  solidarity)
• Fatalistic
• (almost no change in society)

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Two Scenarios

• The Story
• The Film

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Comments andQuestions