Flirting with Death : Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality.
"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 f...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 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; 3 Orphans; 4 Mortality
- the inevitable challenge: the development of the acceptance of one's mortality; Illness; 5 Psychotherapy
- a life's work; 6 Illness in the analyst
- thirty years later.
- When a patient dies7 When a patient dies: reflections on the death of three patients; When an analyst dies; 8 Mortality, integrity and psychoanalysis: (who are you to me? Who am I to you?); Retirement; 9 A note on retirement and mortality; Index.