ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a type of psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease that has been largely absent from the literature and from practice — psychodynamic psychotherapy — which addresses the internal factors that determine a patient's way of adapting and finding restitution. The benefits as well as the obstacles to dynamic psychotherapy with Alzheimer's patients are explored. Principles underlying the treatment, and modifications of traditional techniques for this special population, are described. The chapter concludes with three case studies.
