Late Middle Phase and Termination

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Christopher J. Keats, MD

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May 27, 2022 — Post-termination for Patients, Candidates, and Analysts

[59 pages]

Reis, B. (2010), “Afterwardness and termination” in Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives, Jill Salberg, ed., pp213-222.

Here we have Freud’s idea of nachtraglichkeit and Winnicott’s idea of the transitional object, in the context of the post-termination reworking of both the analysis and the relationship to the analytic object.

Viorst, J. (1982). Experiences of Loss at the End of Analysis: The Analyst’s Response to Termination. Psychoanal. Inq., 2(3):399-418.

This article references the Ticho article above and takes up the issue of countertransference around terminations.

Levine, H.B. Yanof, J.A. (2004). Boundaries and Postanalytic Contacts in Institutes. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 52(3):873-901.

This article addresses the experience of non -professional contact between analysts and former analysands, and also the specific experience of termination and post-analytic contact between you and your training analysts.

These articles provide a bridge for you as CAs to begin thinking of termination with your TAs and with your cohort. We provide some preparation around post-analytic contact and Institute life after graduation/termination.