Flirting with Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality

ISBN-13: 9781782205494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Corinne Masur

Opis

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 consider why the psychotherapist and psychoanalyst may find illness, mortality, retirement and termination so difficult.

This volume is a collection of essays by psychoanalysts covering the denial of death amongst psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and the effect on clinical practice, the effect of early childhood confrontation with mortality on the professional development of psychoanalysts, illness in the analyst, the death of patients, and termination and retirement as symbolic harbingers of death.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Corinne Masur