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. In her book, Judy Leopold Kantrowitz seeks to address this omission by exploring the accounts of 82 former analysands, illustrating the rich diversity of psychoanalytic endings and ways of maintaining analytic benefits after ending.
Key Features
- Patient Perspectives: Presents the rarely heard voices of patients regarding psychoanalytic endings.
- Diversity of Endings: Highlights countless ways to achieve a satisfactory conclusion to the analysis process.
- Myth-Busting: Confronts and refutes generational myths about the termination phase of psychoanalysis.
- Post-Analytic Contact: Discusses the impact of maintaining contact after the analysis has ended.
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This book does not seek to refute or support any specific idea about a best way of ending analysis, nor does it espouse any particular analytic theory. Kantrowitz shows that an oversimplified view of psychoanalytic endings diminishes appreciation of the diversity of outcomes and may interfere with the creativity of individual psychoanalysts. Former analysands reflect on the effects of non-mutual endings due to external factors (moving, retirement, illness or death) or psychological factors (wishing to avoid facing some issue) and how they have held on to their analytic benefits.
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