Letting Go
Some Thoughts About Termination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelley Orgel (Training and Supervising Analyst, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center, 245 East 87th Street New York, NY 10128, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 719-738 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00030651000480031601 |
| PMID | 11059394 |
| OpenAlex | W2125147929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 10 |
Termination of analysis is discussed from three perspectives. First, considered as a vicissitude of the analytic relationship, termination contains essential elements of the psychoanalytic process itself. Cycles of attachment, loss, mourning, and internalization mark moments in, as well as overviews of, every analysis from its beginning to well past its termination. Second, Freud's approach to the subject of termination is explored and widened, with an emphasis on its relation to mourning and on the depth and permanence of analytic transference—two dimensions relatively neglected by Freud, perhaps for personal reasons. Finally, clinical issues are presented that are meaningful to the author in his work with analysands, including his work as a training analyst
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Beginnings and endings
Now We're Out of Time
Illness, Aging, Dying, and the Psychoanalytic Process
Some Hazards to Neutrality in the Psychoanalysis of Candidates
Psychoanalysis in Later Life
A Personal View of Terminations and Endings
Dancing Skeletons
Termination and repetition
What is A “Good Enough” Termination
Poetic Closure, Psychoanalytic Termination, and Death
The Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis as Seen Through the Lens of the Dream
Reflections On Mortality
Boundaries and Postanalytic Contacts in Institutes
The Analyst’s Ambivalence About Continuing and Deepening an Analysis
The Analyst's Reluctance To Begin a New Analysis
Mourning Analysis
Crises and enactments while ending treatment
The interpretation of dreams.
Termination of Psychoanalysis
The Role of the other in Mourning
A Classic Revisited
The Future of Psychoanalysis
The Drive to Become Both Sexes
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
The Ego and Analysis of Defense
Notes on Transference
Reflections on Freud’s Reaction to the Death of his Mother
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |