Patterns of caring: Case studies in informal care

Gordon, David S.; Easton, Norman Alexander

doi:10.1080/09503159208411571

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“…Apart from a few exceptions (Lewis & Meredith, 1988;Gordon & Easton, 1992;Martin, 1992;Kitwood, 1993) however, both sorts of study focus on individual rather than relational issues. This is consistent with the individualism generally of analytic and non-analytic psychology.…”

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Informal care and dementia: Lessons for psychoanalysis and feminism

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1994

Journal of Social Work Practice

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The following case studies, based on in-depth interviews of those looking after a demented spouse at home, are used to highlight (a) defences (surprisingly often overlooked by psychoanalysis) mobilised in analysts as well as in informal carers by those who (as in psychosis or neurosis) are emotionally or cognitively cut off, regressed, anxious, disinhibited, or depressed; (b) similarities and differences between the sexes in their capacity to take in and process the experience of their dependents as both similar to, and digerent from their own; and (c) implications for community care regarding the need to take account of, assess, and tailor its prosision to the defensive strategies adopted by carers an looking after those who are losing their minds.

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Informal care and dementia: Lessons for psychoanalysis and feminism

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1994

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Informal care and dementia: Lessons for psychoanalysis and feminism

Informal care and dementia: Lessons for psychoanalysis and feminism

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