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Part II: Noninstitutionalized Subjects

KENNETH Z. ALTSHULER, M.D.; MARTIN BARAD, M.D.; ALVIN I. GOLDFARB, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1963;8(1):33-37.

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We previously reported on the dreams of persons over age 65 living in the sheltered milieu of a home for the aged and infirm.¹ Reported dreams were viewed as symbolic communications of the anxieties and adaptive patterns of the individual, with similarities in emotional themes and formal characteristics of the dreams seen to reveal preoccupations, emotional states, or behavioral patterns common to the selected group. The relevance of manifest dream content to these aspects of personality has been demonstrated elsewhere.^1-3

Many of the aged persons recalled and reported dreams that suggested a preoccupation with having lost physical, social, or emotional resources of adaptive value. Dreams reported in consecutive interviews revealed that most persons tended to develop a similar relationship with the psychiatrist during the course of the study. The dream content suggested that the doctor was viewed as a strong protector who might . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

From the Office of the Consultant on Services for the Aged, 80-45 Winchester Boulevard, Queens Village, L.I., N.Y. This paper was presented at the Gerontological Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Nov. 10, 1961.

Staff Psychiatrists (Dr. Altshuler and Dr. Barad); Consultant on Services for the Aged, New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene, Queens Village, N.Y., and Chief, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews of New York (Dr. Goldfarb).

Examinations were conducted according to a form standardized in several large scale surveys by the Office of the Consultant on Services for the Aged, available in: Goldfarb, A. I., Report to the Commissioner, Department of Mental Hygiene, New York State, Albany, mimeographed, 1958.

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Submitted for publication Jan. 25, 1962.

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