Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A short history of termination: The ideal versus the real -- it ain't necessarily so; 2 Developments in the ending of psychoanalysis: Insight, loss and mourning; 3 Non-mutual endings; 4 The effect of post-analytic contact; 5 As time goes by: Ways of keeping analysis alive; 6 Afterwards: What we learn; 7 Reflections and reconsiderations; Appendix; References; Index
Summary
Psychoanalysis can make a huge difference in the lives of patients, their families and others they encounter. Myths have developed, however, about how psychoanalysis should end - what patients experience and what analysts do. These expectations come primarily from accounts by analysts in the analytic literature which are often perpetuated in an oversimplified form in teaching. Patients' perspectives are rarely presented. I her book, Judy Leopold Kantrowitz seeks to address this omission. Exploring the accounts of 82 former analysands, she illustrates the rich diversity of psychoanaly
