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Life and Death: Our Relationship with Ageing, Dementia, and Other Fates of Time
Life and Death considers ageing and mortality from a psychoanalytic perspective and from the point of view of the individual, the couple, and the family.
Andrew Balfour’s approach focuses on understanding the challenges of late life and what might help us to continue to live our lives, and inhabit our relationships, as creatively as possible. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of developmental challenge for us all, through closely written accounts of the experiences of older people, as well as wider social-contextual issues. It locates itself at the interface of internal and external realities, exploring the lived experience of some of the most difficult things we can face in old age, such as dementia and other age-related illnesses and losses.
Life and Death will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists in practice and in training. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in ageing and the challenges of late life.
Andrew Balfour’s approach focuses on understanding the challenges of late life and what might help us to continue to live our lives, and inhabit our relationships, as creatively as possible. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of developmental challenge for us all, through closely written accounts of the experiences of older people, as well as wider social-contextual issues. It locates itself at the interface of internal and external realities, exploring the lived experience of some of the most difficult things we can face in old age, such as dementia and other age-related illnesses and losses.
Life and Death will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists in practice and in training. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in ageing and the challenges of late life.
163 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2025
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About the author
Andrew Balfour
53 booksSir Andrew Balfour, KCMG, CB, LL.D
Balfour was a distinguished Scottish physician specializing in tropical medicine. He worked internationally, notably in Sudan where he was involved in public health and tropical disease research. Later in his career he became Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and served on commissions related to colonial health and disease control. He was knighted in 1930.
In addition to his medical and public health work, Balfour wrote several adventure and historical novels influenced by H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. The Golden Kingdom is among his better-known fiction works.
Balfour was a distinguished Scottish physician specializing in tropical medicine. He worked internationally, notably in Sudan where he was involved in public health and tropical disease research. Later in his career he became Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and served on commissions related to colonial health and disease control. He was knighted in 1930.
In addition to his medical and public health work, Balfour wrote several adventure and historical novels influenced by H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson. The Golden Kingdom is among his better-known fiction works.
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