Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2518931
Judy Kantrowitz
{"title":"A Personal View of Terminations and Endings.","authors":"Judy Kantrowitz","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2518931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are many myths about how a psychoanalysis ends. In reality, there is no one way. In this paper, I describe what I learned from interviews with eighty-two analysands who volunteered to tell me about how they ended their analyses. Their experiences illustrate many different ways in which analyses end-some very satisfactory and others in disappointment. I also describe many different ways I have concluded psychoanalyses with my patients. I try to end each treatment to fit the needs of each patient and the nature of our work together. There are no formulas to how we end. I consider and explore the issues of being an older analyst: the risks and responsibilities of continuing to treat analytic-or any-patients. I discuss what we psychoanalysts gain from our work with patients-how it is sustaining and how we learn about ourselves as well as our patients. In doing psychoanalytic work with our patients, we stretch our own capacities and change. We, like our patients, though not to the same degree or intensity, mourn our endings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"361-379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2518932
Nancy Kulish
{"title":"Dancing Skeletons: An Analyst's Resistance To Termination.","authors":"Nancy Kulish","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518932","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518932","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author describes her emotional reactions and counter-transferences in ending analyses in lieu of her personal situation, in which she was anticipating retirement. Through a clinical case of a patient who had difficulties in ending treatment, and her own dream which occurred during this time, the author shows how both she and the patient shared unconscious fantasies about aging and stopping the passage of time. The analyst's resistances about retiring from clinical practice in concert with the patient's resistances about ending analysis created a barrier against analytic progress. The author suggests that the analyst's feelings and needs to keep going may be a part of their holding on to patients and extending their treatments interminably.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"435-456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090
Igor Kolmakov
{"title":"The Strange Case of Dr. Freud, Mr. Holmes, and Dr. Watson.","authors":"Igor Kolmakov","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2443090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the comparison between two great Victorian masterminds, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes, and their respective methods, is in itself not new (see for example Ginzburg 1979, 1980; Brooks 1984; Marcus 1984; Shephard 1985; Spence 1987), it merits further investigation, as it raises important questions regarding the nature and structure of clinical evidence, clinical epistemology, and clinical narration. In this article, the author: refers both to the common cultural background of these two projects (including the <i>disenchantment</i> of the modern world and the complicated dialog between rationality and imagination) and their common epistemological situation; analyses their <i>search for a plot</i> and <i>search for clues</i>, and characterizes both Holmes and Freud as <i>applied historians</i> and <i>applied semioticians</i>. Their <i>modi</i> operandi are described as hermeneutical procedures, methodologically similar to Charles Sanders Peirce's <i>abduction</i>. Moreover, the author argues that both can be viewed as manifestations of Aristotle's <i>phronesis</i>. Finally, the author points out one important difference between Freud and Holmes, namely that in fact <i>the Viennese Holmes</i> is at the same time <i>the Viennese Watson</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"29-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2522115
Joyce Slochower
{"title":"Ending, Not Quite Ending, and Not Ending At All.","authors":"Joyce Slochower","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2522115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2522115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I consider the place of termination in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. A more flexible approach to therapeutic endings represents one dimension of a broader paradigm shift away from rule-boundedness and toward clinical flexibility. In any event, final, less-than-final, and absent goodbyes have always been part of psychoanalytic reality despite the power of our termination ideal. I first describe the broader move toward flexibility within the field and then address its complex implications for psychoanalytic endings. In that context, I explore the varied ways in which we don't always end treatment relationships. The implications of not entirely ending a treatment are also addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"411-434"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936
J David Miller
{"title":"Learning from Vermeer: What \"The Allegory of Painting\" Means for Clinical Theory.","authors":"J David Miller","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2478936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vermeer's masterpiece, \"The Allegory of Painting,\" which is the one work that he refused to sell, brings to mind the successful outcome of psychoanalytic treatment. In its incongruities, this painting presumably contains and reflects the conflicted inner world of the artist, but it also evokes a remarkable sense of coherence and harmony. To develop a credible explanation for Vermeer's achievement in analytic terms, I found it helpful to employ several major theoretical models; this finding suggests that for clinical analysis as well, a multi-theory approach would be optimal.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"185-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2518927
Ricardo Bernardi, Mónica Eidlin
{"title":"Clinical Evidence, Triangulation of Perspectives, and Contextualization. Part 2: Ending an Endless Process.","authors":"Ricardo Bernardi, Mónica Eidlin","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518927","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2518927","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We explored the dynamics of treatment termination in a patient with borderline personality organization who underwent eight years of transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP). A previous paper examined the beginnings of this treatment (Bernardi and Eidlin 2024). In both papers, we aim to strengthen the clinical evidence through further contextualization and triangulation of perspectives. We analyze the relationship between the end of treatment, therapeutic gains in relation to self and other, and the likelihood that these gains will be maintained and extended once the patient is on his or her own. The contributions of complex systems models to the study of dynamic, open, and non-linear clinical interactions are explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 3","pages":"457-495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760
Michel Thys
{"title":"Between Past and Present: on the Psychoanalytic Preoccupation with Memories and Life History.","authors":"Michel Thys","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2475760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalysis focuses both on the patient's inner life history and on what happens in the actual analytic situation. Psychoanalysts differ in the extent they pay attention to memories and the past or to the actuality of the analytic session as such and in the extent they link both. The main goal of this paper is to give an overview of ideas in the history of psychoanalytic thought on the relationship between past and present. The paper examines five possible positions: historicization (the past colors the present), actualization (back and forth between past and present), dehistoricization (the here and now), posteriority (the present colors the past), and <i>natality</i> (present without link with the past). New positions are added to old ones rather than replacing them. Together, all the positions testify to a lively dynamic in psychoanalysis that both repeats and transforms itself in everyday analytic thinking and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"217-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181
Isaac Jean-Francois
{"title":"\"Self-Slaughter\": Gary Fisher's Racialized Fantasies Bridge Black Studies And Psychoanalysis.","authors":"Isaac Jean-Francois","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2485181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Black Studies and psychoanalysis both consider how socio-sexual dynamics contour the skin. Black Studies scholar Hortense Spillers (1987) alongside psychoanalytic theorist Didier Anzieu (1985) trace the skin as a porous enclosure, albeit in different discursive environments. Also a scholar of psychoanalysis, Spillers's work emphasizes the intersubjective nature of embodiment: history carries notions of race, which frames interactions between desiring subjects. As a case study, the journals of writer and English doctoral student Gary Fisher (1961-1994) provide a narrative surface to place both traditions in conversation. This article investigates the fraught relationship between the imagined and historical in the psyche's processing of racial trauma. Fisher's exploration of his racialized fantasies and sexuality unfurls across his writing at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, an epidemic which continues today. Fisher's prose reveals that abject sexual practices, those which rely on racial tropes to efface and excite the desiring subject, can inspire meaningful self-actualization and broaden understandings of race and sexuality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"277-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955
Michael J Diamond
{"title":"Toward Eradicating the Unbearable: The Dangerous Allure of Fascistic States of Mind.","authors":"Michael J Diamond","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2025.2481955","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To understand fascistic group movements, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of fascistic states of mind within all of us. Following a note on the American polity, the author differentiates <i>fascism</i> from <i>authoritarianism</i> before reviewing the dynamics of fascistic states of mind, including the omnipotent longing for purity and its relationship to destructive narcissism. Considering the role of the death drive, the allure of the fascistic state is explored, based largely in the need to avoid primary terrors of annihilation. In addressing the movement of such states from the individual psyche to the larger group mind, the author examines the symbiotic fit between the leader and the group's unconscious fears and phantasies, as illustrated by perverse containment within the cult of Trumpism. Finally, in noting the inability of reason alone to contain destructive forces, he ponders how we might deal with fascistic states of mind most effectively in individuals, groups, and ourselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"94 2","pages":"153-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}