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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May 15, 2020 — Countertransference informs and alerts the analyst to unspoken unconscious material

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Edith Weigert notes Annie Reich’s and Edith Buxbaum’s views that resolution of the transference can be misjudged or delayed by countertransference. She adds, however, that countertransference, if recognized and understood, does have a significant contribution to make. Judith Viorst, skillfully writes about the experience of loss for the analysand and the analyst.

Weigert, E. (1952). Contribution to the Problem of Terminating Psychoanalyses. Psychoanal Q., 21:465-480.

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