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What Happens When the Analyst Dies explores the stories of patients who have experienced the death of their analyst. The book prioritizes the voices of patients, letting them articulate for themselves the challenges and heartache that occur when grappling with such a devastating loss.
List of contents
Preface
Claudia Heilbrunn Acknowledgement
Introduction
Claudia Heilbrunn Part I: Patients I.I Illness and Death within the Context of Long-Term Treatments 1. Disappearing Shrinks
Claudia Heilbrunn 2. Unfinished Business: The Impact of Denial on the Grieving Process
Jennifer Grant I.II Sudden Death 3. The Art of Grief
Rachel Brandoff 4. Monumental Losses, Monumental Gifts: Analysand and Analyst Mourn the Death of an Analyst and Friend
Vanessa Hannah Bright and Merle Molofsky I.III Inconsolable Grief and Recovery Following the Death of a Young Analyst 5. Birth Interrupted
Lynn Jacobs 6. Re-finding a Way
Lynne Jacobs I.IV Making Room for Death within the Treatment Setting 7. After the First Death, There is no Other
Maria K. Walker 8. The Gift of Goodbye and the Invisible Mourner
Iris Hellner Part II: Practitioners II.I. The Post-Death Analyst 9. Defenses, Transferences, and Symbolism after an Analyst¿s Death
Jerome S. Blackman 10. A Patient¿s and Analyst¿s Self-experiences with Shared Loss
David Baucher II.II. The Ill Analyst: Coping with Illness and Picking up Pieces 11. The Analyst¿s Illness from the Perspectives of Analyst and Patient
Therese Rosenblatt 12. Experiences of a Bereaved and Suffering Second Therapist: Replacing a Beloved Student Therapist and a Gay Psychoanalyst
Hendrika Vande Kemp.
III. Psychoanalytic Institutes and Training 13. Death Begets Growth
Catherine Lowry 14. Hidden Illness
Nancy Einbinder Epilogue
Claudia Heilbrunn Index
About the author
Claudia Heilbrunn, LP, is a psychoanalyst in New York City, USA. She received her training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Summary
What Happens When the Analyst Dies explores the stories of patients who have experienced the death of their analyst. The book prioritizes the voices of patients, letting them articulate for themselves the challenges and heartache that occur when grappling with such a devastating loss.
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"No one likes to think about death, despite (or perhaps) because it is unavoidable. That has meant that, although it intrudes into all our professional lives, psychoanalysts have not covered it in the literature anywhere near as much as would be helpful. What Happens When the Analyst Dies is an important step forward in providing thoughtful reflection and tools enabling analysts to engage in a far more practical way with the various effects of the death of analysts. I strongly recommend this book."-Brent Willock, Founding President, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Board Member, Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Faculty, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology; Advisory Board, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
