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Volume 8
Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
Dementia 2018
December 13-15, 2018
Page 33
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December 13-15, 2018 Abu Dhabi, UAE
13
th
Annual Conference on
Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Malka Ceh
Sigmund Freud University, Austria
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sychoanalytical psychotherapy is usually not primary recognized as a supportive approach and is traditionally placed on
the expressive and explorative pole of the psychotherapy spectrum. The common aim of psychoanalytical psychotherapy
is to identify innate patterns, repressed emotions, and forgotten experiences. In making this unconscious content conscious it
gets easier for the patient to know, change or accept who they are. Although dementia is rarely considered for psychotherapy,
and because of its nature even less for psychoanalytical psychotherapy, we believe psychoanalytical informed ideas and
concepts have much to offer in outlining a benefiting approach to dementia patients. As memory function is critically affected
in dementia, the illness alters the core of a patient’s self and his object relations. In developing a profound understanding
of these human experiences and their complex functioning, psychoanalysis can conceive precise interventions that provide
efficiently for the patient’s cognitive, relational, and relational needs. Together with most powerful aspects of contemporary
psychoanalytical psychotherapy, i.e. curiosity, openness, and acceptance, we can contribute considerably to the quality of life
for more and more people who are living with dementia.
Biography
Malka Ceh is a postgraduate student of psychotherapy science at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in training, currently
working under supervision at the psychotherapeutic faculty clinic in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a founding member of Physiopsychological Research Association
PsyPhys, member of International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, and member of International Association of Clinical Neuropsychotherapy. Her research interests
include neuropsychotherapy, neuropsychoanalysis, and sport psychotherapy.
Malka Ceh, J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460-C8-057