Growing Old: A Journey of Self-Discovery

Prologue. Reconstructing One's Own Internal Life-history. One Small Second of Eternity. The Work of Remembering. The Phases of Life. Anxiety about Death. What Lies Behind the Decline of Very Old People? Losing Everything Without Losing Oneself. The Resources of Old Age. Strait is the Gate. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Older People. Psychoanalysis and Elderly People. Being a Psychoanalyst and Growing Old. Grandparents and the Difference Between Generations. The Blue Note and the Discovery of Loving.