Judith Viorst
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231156998
- eISBN:
- 9780231534604
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231156998.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter demonstrates that the need to identify, resolve, and digest one's losses is a significant technical issue for psychoanalysts when the patient is nearing the end of treatment. It also ...
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This chapter demonstrates that the need to identify, resolve, and digest one's losses is a significant technical issue for psychoanalysts when the patient is nearing the end of treatment. It also shows that, in dealing with aspects of loss, analysts may find that they can utilize their responses for their own—as well as their patients'—further development. It describes the primary themes uncovered over the course of sixteen interviews with analysts who discussed their personal experience of terminating with long-term patients. All but one of the interviewees acknowledged that ending treatment invariably elicited feelings of loss. It highlights that this is an intimate relationship from both sides of the couch. Each analyst organizes and makes sense of these feelings in a unique way that then affects their clinical decisions during the termination. Each participant is subject to a range of feelings that can complicate the process of ending treatment. The chapter raises the hopeful idea that during the termination phase both patient and analyst have new opportunities to mourn.Less
This chapter demonstrates that the need to identify, resolve, and digest one's losses is a significant technical issue for psychoanalysts when the patient is nearing the end of treatment. It also shows that, in dealing with aspects of loss, analysts may find that they can utilize their responses for their own—as well as their patients'—further development. It describes the primary themes uncovered over the course of sixteen interviews with analysts who discussed their personal experience of terminating with long-term patients. All but one of the interviewees acknowledged that ending treatment invariably elicited feelings of loss. It highlights that this is an intimate relationship from both sides of the couch. Each analyst organizes and makes sense of these feelings in a unique way that then affects their clinical decisions during the termination. Each participant is subject to a range of feelings that can complicate the process of ending treatment. The chapter raises the hopeful idea that during the termination phase both patient and analyst have new opportunities to mourn.
F. M. Kamm
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199971985
- eISBN:
- 9780199346141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199971985.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter explains the distinctions that are of moral relevance in discussions of suicide, physician-assisted suicide, termination of treatment, and euthanasia. These include the distinctions ...
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This chapter explains the distinctions that are of moral relevance in discussions of suicide, physician-assisted suicide, termination of treatment, and euthanasia. These include the distinctions between intending and foreseeing; active and passive suicide and euthanasia; killing and letting die; voluntary and involuntary suicide and euthanasia; and the permissibility or impermissibility of conduct.Less
This chapter explains the distinctions that are of moral relevance in discussions of suicide, physician-assisted suicide, termination of treatment, and euthanasia. These include the distinctions between intending and foreseeing; active and passive suicide and euthanasia; killing and letting die; voluntary and involuntary suicide and euthanasia; and the permissibility or impermissibility of conduct.
