188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume covers a much-neglected topic: the avoidance by psychotherapists and psychoanalysts of the topic of their own mortality and that of their patients. All too often, the psychotherapist or psychoanalyst who is ill is unable to confront this reality in the presence of her patient and fails to prepare the patient for the most permanent goodbye, death. This volume includes nine essays which... Read more
Acknowledgements, About the editor and the contributors, Preface, Introduction, 1 Mortality and psychoanalysis: the analyst’s defense against acknowledging mortality and the effect on clinical practice, 2 Psychoanalytic reflections on limitation: aging, dying, generativity, and renewal, Early exposure to danger and loss, Illness, When a patient dies, When an analyst dies, Index
Biography
Corinne Masur
