Late Middle Phase and Termination

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Ronald Furedy, MD

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April 10, 2020 — Termination Dreams

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Jerome Oremland provides case examples in which dreams were termination events. While Gillman mentions termination dreams, his article provides results of a survey of 48 successfully completed analyses from 15 institutes around the country. He felt this survey supported the conclusion that a definite termination period was useful, mobilizing new material in the analysis. Caston refers to both papers in his rather philosophic approach to termination.

Oremland, J.D. (1973). A Specific Dream During the Termination Phase of Successful Psychoanalyses. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 21:285-302.

Gillman, R.D. (1982). The Termination Phase in Psychoanalytic Practice: A Survey of 48 Completed Cases. Psychoanal. Inq., 2(3):463-472.

Caston, J. (2007). Poetic Closure, Psychoanalytic Termination, and Death. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 55(1):7-30.