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 17, 2020 — Barriers to termination

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Owen Renick explores problems that can lead an analysis to stall and not reach termination. Martin Bergmann’s paper looks at how wishes to terminate can be a reaction formation against dependency, and how prolonged analyses can result in new intrapsychic equilibriums being established that are difficult to resolve.

Renik, O. (1992). Use of the Analyst as a Fetish. Psychoanal Q., 61:542-563.

Bergmann, M.S. (1997). Termination: The Achilles Heel of Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanal. Psychol., 14(2):163-174.