San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

Termination

April 21 – June 2, 2017

Robin A. Deutsch, Ph.D.

TERMINATION

Termination (7 weeks) 4/21/2017 – 6/2/2017

Week 1 (4/21/17) Beginning at the End

Gabbard, G.O. (2009) What is a “Good Enough” Termination? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 57:575-594. (PEP)

Shane, E. (2009) Approaching Termination: Ideal Criteria versus Working Realities. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29, 167-173.(PEP)

Week 2 (4/28/17) Historical Thoughts

Ferenczi, S. (1927) The Problem of the Termination of the Analysis. In Masbacher, E., Balint, M. (ed) Final Contributions to the Problems and Methods of Psycho-analysis, 77-86.

Freud, S. (1937) Analysis terminable and interminable. S.E. 23:209-253. (But only read sections I, II, III, IV, VII, VIII, and skip V, VI). (PEP)

Week 3(5/5/17) Termination: Theory or Technique

Paniagua, C. (2002) A Terminating Case. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 83, 179-187 (PEP)

Britton, R. (2002) Commentary on a ‘Terminating Case’ by CecilioPaniagua, 83, 189-191 (PEP)

Michels, R. (2002) Commentary on CecilioPaniagua’s ‘A Terminating Case’, 83,193-196 (PEP)

Week 4 (5/12/17) Contemporary Thinking

Davies, J.M. (2005). Transformations of desire and despair: Reflections

on the termination process. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 15 (6): 779-805 (PEP)

Levine, H. (2014) The Puzzle of interminable Treatment, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 34, 4-19. (EZ-Proxy)

Week 5 (5/19/17) The Patient’s Process

Loewald, H. W. (1962) Internalization, Separation, Mourning and the Superego. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 31, 483-504 (PEP)

Kahane, C. (2008) A Contract to Terminate. Modern Psychoanalysis, 33A:3-22. (PEP)

Week 6 (5/26/17) The Analyst’s Experience

Buechler, S. (2000) Necessary and Unnecessary Losses: The Analyst’s Mourning. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 36, 77-90. (PEP)

Viorst, J. (1982). Experiences of loss at the end of analysis: The analyst’s response to termination. Psychoanalytic Inquiry2:399-418. (PEP)

Week 7 (6/2/17) After the End

Craige, H. (2009) Terminating without fatality. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29, 101-116 (PEP)

Kantrowitz, J. (2012) Afterward: Keeping analysis alive over time. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXXI, 905-929

For further reading:

Berenstein, I. (1987). Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Fifty Years on. International Journal of Psychoanalysis,68:21-35.

Bergmann, MS (1988). On The Fate of the Intrapsychic Image of the Psychoanalyst After Termination of the Analysis.Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 43:137-153.

Bergmann,MS (1997). Termination: The Achilles Heel of Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanalytic Psychology 14:163-174.

Caston, J. (2007) Poetic closure, psychoanalytic termination, and death. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ,vol. 55, no. 1, 7-30 .

Cooper, S. (2009) Unfamiliar Forms of Interaction in the Ending Phase of Analysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19:588-603

Craige, H. (2009). Terminating without Fatality. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29:101-116

Crastnopol, M. (2009) Institute Life Beyond Graduation. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 45:358-362

Deutsch, R.A. (2011) A Voice Lost, A Voice Found: After the Death of the Analyst. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 31:526-535 (PEP)

Elise, D. (2011) Time to Say Goodbye: On Time, Trauma and Termination. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 591-600. (PEP)

Guntrip, H(1975). My Experience of Analysis with Fairbairn and Winnicott (How Complete a Result Does Psycho-analysis Therapy Achieve?).International Review of Psychoanalysis 2:145-156..JAPA: vol.57, #5. pp. 1185-1195.

Jones, A. (2006). Hello/Goodbye. Zyzyva, XXII, 3, 103-109.

Jones, A. (2013). “Now we’re out of time”: Thoughts on Endings in Poetry and Psychoanalysis. American Imago, V. 70, No. 4, Winter 2013, pp.607-632.

Kantrowitz, J. L. (2014)Myths of Termination: What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings. Routledge: New York

Klein, M. (1950) (Two short papers, same title) On the criteria for the termination of an analysis. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis31:204-204, and 31:78-80.

Loewald, H.W. (1988) Termination Analyzable and Unanalyzable. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 43:155-166

Loewald, H.(1978). The waning of the Oedipus complex.In Papers on Psychoanalysis(1980). Yale U. Press: New Haven and London, pp,384-404.

Marshall, K. (2000) Termination of an “infinite conversation”: Reflections on the last days of an analysis Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10:931-947

Orgel, S. (2000) Letting go: Some thoughts on termination. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association48:719-738.

Phillips, A. (2006). Talking nonsense and knowing when to stop.In Side Effects, Harper Perennial, NY.pp. 21-41.

Meltzer, D. (1983). Recovery from analysis and the self-analytic method.Dream-life,

CluniePress:Worcester, Great Britain. Pp.170-178.

Novick, J. and K.K. Novick (2006). Good Goodbyes: Knowing how to end in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Jason Aronson: New York.

Salberg, J., ed. (2010).Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives. Routledge: London.

Schacter, J. (2002) Transference and the post-termination relationship. In Schacter, J. Transference: Shibboleth or Albatross? Analytic Press: Hillsdale, pps. 199-219.

Schafer, R. (2002). Experiencing termination: authentic and false depressive positions. Psychoanal. Psychol., 19:235-253.

Segal, H. (1988). Sweating it out. Psychoanal. St. Child, 43:167-175.

Steiner, J. (2005). The conflict between mourning and melancholia.

Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 74(1), Jan 2005, 83-104.

Shane, M., Shane, E. (1984). The end phase of analysis: indicators, functions, and tasks of termination J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 32:739-772.

Schlesinger, H. (2005). Endings and Beginnings: On the technique of terminating psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Analytic Press: Hillsdale, N.J.

Shengold, L. (2006) As August Approaches: An Elegiac yet Reassuring Essay on why and how the Prospect of the August Summer Vacation can Stress Even the Experienced Analyst, as Well as the Patient. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75:879-886

Sirois, F. (2011) Termination: The Hidden Face of Analysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 92:57-73

Tessman, L. (2003) Dilemmas of post-termination contact,The Analyst’s Analyst Within. Analytic Press: Hillsdale, pps. 270-296.

Thompson, M.G. (1994). "The Existential Dimension to Termination." Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1994.

Ticho, E. (1972) Termination of psychoanalysis: Treatment goals, life goals. Psychoanalytic Quarterly,41:315-333.