On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending.

Abstract

The author describes and reflects upon his clinical experiences with both mutually desired terminations and coerced endings. He addresses issues of technique, being real in termination and post-termination contact in addition to offering his perspectives on the role of theory in determining the phenomena of termination, retraumatizing aspects of termination, termination and death, and the question of whether analytic relationships could or should be ended.