Psychodynamic approach to the most common psychiatric disorders in the elderly

It should be emphasized that it was difficult for the author, if not impossible, to sort out any specific dynamic factor(s) or unconscious motive that could explain fully and appropriately the protean psychopathology of the patients seen and followed-up in his series. A multifactorial pathogenesis should be taken into consideration in such or similar cases. On the other hand, to make any attempt at an overall or generalized dynamic formulation in the elderly should, in the author's opinion, be out of the question.