Psicoterapia na esquizofrenia

Abstract

© Bernhard Weicht 2015.Two retired music teachers in their 80s are enjoying their highly cultured life together in their refined apartment in Paris when their world dramatically changes after Anne has a stroke and suffers subsequent progressive dementia. Complying with her demand to promise never to put her into a hospital or care home, her husband George lovingly starts to care for her, protect her and comfort her. Dissatisfied with professional caregivers and disappointed by their daughter and son-in-law’s reactions to the situation, the couple gradually turn the apartment into a temporary hospice in which they try carefully to adjust to all the changes and consequences that Anne’s illness throws at them. Both George’s strength and the couple’s interactions become increasingly challenged by Anne’s deteriorating health, and eventually George decides to relieve his wife of her suffering by suffocating her with a pillow. This story, beautifully depicted in Michael Haneke’s film Amour (2012), which, besides other prizes, won an Academy award and a Palme d’Or, identifies several crucial aspects of the meaning of old age, care and dying.