Here reported are six patients with depression of late life and brain syndromes, who responded to an eclectic approach of tranquillizers, antidepressants and psychotherapy, using concepts from Gutheil, Rado and Arieti. Environmental manipulation, use of proprioceptive action self, and discussion of the origins of each depressive episode often helped to ameliorate symptoms and improve the clinical picture. Psychotherapy with these patients may necessarily involve newer but accepted techniques used in specific but different ways.
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