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Memory, Mourning and Meaning in a Psychotherapist’s Life.
- Source :
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Clinical Social Work Journal . Sep2010, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p269-274. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- In this paper the author, a psychotherapist specializing in bereavement, recounts her personal experiences of loss and the ways in which they intersect and inform her professional life. One clinical vignette explores how unresolved grief in a patient and anticipated grief in a therapist emerge in transference-counter-transference issues. Another vignette illustrates a way in which supportive therapy can open the door to intra-psychic work with the ill or dying patient and how psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy with the aged can help them to re-imagine their lives and to form different relationships, in their minds, with significant others in their past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00911674
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Social Work Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 52110593
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-009-0222-4