Abstract
This paper chronicles the journey of a long term, suicidally depressed patient’s struggle of growth and survival, only to
be struck down by a form of Dementia: Lewy Body Disorder. Focus of the paper highlights the myriad complications and struggles
that developed in the countertransference as therapist, patient, family, and medical caregivers, try to ascertain: What is
psychological and regressive? What is neuro-degenerative? How can the therapist cope with this confusion while maintaining
the frame? The paper highlights how the frame as we know it, is altered to meet the medical and psychological crisis presented
and how that alteration impacts the treatment and the therapist’s changing perception of what the work is about.
be struck down by a form of Dementia: Lewy Body Disorder. Focus of the paper highlights the myriad complications and struggles
that developed in the countertransference as therapist, patient, family, and medical caregivers, try to ascertain: What is
psychological and regressive? What is neuro-degenerative? How can the therapist cope with this confusion while maintaining
the frame? The paper highlights how the frame as we know it, is altered to meet the medical and psychological crisis presented
and how that alteration impacts the treatment and the therapist’s changing perception of what the work is about.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Paper
- Pages 1-7
- DOI 10.1007/s10615-012-0389-y
- Authors
- Paula Shatsky, 1381 Cheviotdale Drive, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA
- Journal Clinical Social Work Journal
- Online ISSN 1573-3343
- Print ISSN 0091-1674