The Therapist in Mourning : From the Faraway Nearby / Anne Adelman, Kerry Malawista.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adelman, Anne J., Editor.

Malawista, Kerry L., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Grief--Psychological aspects.

Grief.

Psychoanalysts--Psychology.

Psychoanalysts.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The unexpected loss of a client can be a lonely and isolating experience for therapists. While family and friends can ritually mourn the deceased, the nature of the therapeutic relationship prohibits therapists from engaging in such activities. Practitioners can only share memories of a client in circumscribed ways, while respecting the patient's confidentiality. Therefore, they may find it difficult to discuss the things that made the therapeutic relationship meaningful. Similarly, when a therapist loses someone in their private lives, they are expected to isolate themselves from grief, since allowing one's personal life to enter the working relationship can interfere with a client's self-discovery and healing. For therapists caught between their grief and the empathy they provide for their clients, this collection explores the complexity of bereavement within the practice setting. It also examines the professional and personal ramifications of death and loss for the practicing clinician. Featuring original essays from longstanding practitioners, the collection demonstrates the universal experience of bereavement while outlining a theoretical framework for the position of the bereft therapist. Essays cover the unexpected death of clients and patient suicide, personal loss in a therapist's life, the grief of clients who lose a therapist, disastrous loss within a community, and the grief resulting from professional losses and disruptions. The first of its kind, this volume gives voice to long-suppressed thoughts and emotions, enabling psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and other mental health specialists to achieve the connection and healing they bring to their own work.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

"Another Kind of Sorrow," / Bolz, Jody

Preface

Introduction

Part I. The Therapist'S Experience of Loss

1. From the Faraway Nearby: Perspectives on the Integration of Loss / Malawista, Kerry L. / Kanefield, Linda

2. Experiences of Loss at the End of Analysis: The Analyst's Response to Termination / Viorst, Judith

3. Missing Myself / Buechler, Sandra

Part II. When a Patient Dies

introduction

4. The Hand of Fate: On Mourning the Death of a Patient / Adelman, Anne J.

5. Little Boy Lost

6. When a Patient Dies: Reflections on the Death of Three Patients

7. When What We Have to Offer Isn't Enough: Suicide in Clinical Practice / Anderson, Catherine L.

Part III. At the Crossroads of the Therapist'S Personal and Professional Worlds

8. When the Frame Shifts: A Multilayered Perspective on Illness in the Therapist / Nields, Jenifer

9. The Loss of an Institution: Mourning Chestnut Lodge / Waugaman, Richard M.

10. The Death of the Analyst, the Death of the Analytic Community, and Bad Conduct / Galatzer-Levy, Robert M.

11. The Analyst's Death-Apprehension yet not Comprehension / Stimmel, Barbara

Part IV. When Disaster St Rikes a Comm Unity

12. Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams, Wordless Endings / Schneller, Sylvia J.

13. What the Living Did: September 11 and Its Aftermath / Pivnick, Billie A.

14. The Loss of Normal: Ten Years as a U.S. Navy Physician Since 9/11 / Carr, Russell B.

15. Time / Winer, Robert

Conclusion

"The Five Stages of Grief," a poem by Linda Pastan

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780231534604

0231534604

OCLC:

843191698