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Termination
April 27, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm, Wyman Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (APP)
2019-20, 4th Block — Mondays, 8:00-9:15pm
Robin Mccoy-Brooks
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April 27, 2020 — Loss of the Analyst or Patient; Closure in treatment
[20 pages]
Another termination topic we will cover is the closure of a therapeutic (analytic) relationship with your patient. There are general guidelines, but the closure process is always singularly driven and cannot be reduced into categorical models or seamless procedural outlines. By singularity, I mean the singularity of the analyst/therapist and that of the patient. Each patient will close, leave, or just not show up in their own unique manner in relationship to you, the transference and always a measure of the unexpected.
Holmes, J. “Termination in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: An Attachment Perspective”. European Journal of Psychoanalysis
I’ve given you “Termination in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: an Attachment Perspective” by Jeremy Holmes as a general guideline to a way of articulating some of the central concerns. It is a solid paper, general in its approach and accessible as compared to much of the psychoanalytic literature. Please read this paper as a background that we may or not directly refer to.
Laplanche, J. (1999) Essays on Otherness, pp214-233
I am also sending you a short chapter titled “Transference: its Provocations by the Analyst” from Jean Laplanche’s important 1999 text Essays on Otherness. Laplanche is one of the great post-Lacanian thinkers of our time. Laplanche builds his thinking throughout the chapter culminating in a few pithy pages at the end that focus on the patient’s termination from the analysis, entrance into culture and the transitional effects on the transference over time. We will spend much of this session digesting this chapter. Don’t be concerned if you don’t grasp what he is saying right away as we will study important parts of the text together. Perhaps your reflections on your own transferential processes over time in the program, with each other, particular instructors etc. and your patients will come to mind as you read Laplanche’s perspective.
