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Psychoanalysts usually take a very sceptical view of the psychotherapy of older people. This rejection is attributable chiefly to problems of the countertransference and to widespread prejudices about ageing. Clinical examples are presented to describe important aspects of the transference and countertransference in the psychoanalytic treatment of older patients.