Freud could be brilliant in his theoretical discussion of termination—an abstract discussion about when the natural point to end arrives—but he seemed less capable of helping his analysands with their actual feelings about the loss.
Download Author: Kupers, Terry A. M.D.
The Termination of Psychoanalysis after Freud
This chapter is in two parts: the first deals with specific developments on termination as expressed in the literature, the second with changes in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis that radically alter the meaning of termination.
The Termination of Psychotherapy Today
In this chapter I will discuss long-term, open-ended therapy.
The Clinical Logic of Termination
This chapter will serve as the transition from the purely clinical discussion to one that integrates the clinical and the social levels. The concept of a clinical logic touches on both.
The Brief Therapy Alternative
There are three reasons for including a chapter on brief therapy in this discussion of termination. First, the time limits imposed by brief therapists tend to exaggerate certain termination issues. Second, it is an opportunity to make the discussion of termination more inclusive. The third reason for including a chapter on brief therapy is that it serves to expose the contradiction between the clinical logic of termination and the fact that means more than clinical condition seem to determine the length of one’s therapy.
Therapy in Pieces
More and more, clients enter therapy wishing to work through one or another circumscribed issue, end the therapy when they feel satisfied with the immediate results, and then return to be in therapy again when another crisis arises. It is hard to say which came first, the brief therapy or the pattern whereby more and more people begin to utilize therapy in pieces over a life time. Whichever it is, the whole meaning of termination changes.
The Community of Therapy Consumers
The growth of a community of willing therapy consumers significantly influences the way termination is theorized and conducted. Therefore the discussion of termination must take into account the culture of therapy consumption.
The Men’s Movement
In this chapter I will examine the strengths and shortcomings of the psychological/psychotherapeutic, the mythopoetic/spiritual, and the political/pro-feminist approaches, and suggest that an integration of all three is needed if we are to redefine power and significantly restructure gender roles and gender relations. (47 pp.)
Ending Therapy: The Meaning of Termination
Recent articles in the popular press reveal a disturbing picture of psychotherapy: greedy, unethical, or perhaps simply ignorant therapists fostering dangerously dependent, financially draining, needlessly lengthy relationships with their patients. An integral part of the therapeutic process, termination has rarely been the focus of clinical discussion. Does therapy go on too long? How can its success be judged? What do therapists say about ending therapy? In this important volume, psychiatrist Terry Kupers confronts these questions, exploring when, how, and why therapy ends. (222 pp.)
Crossing and Redrawing the Lines
Masculinity is all about the lines a man must not cross, and men do not stray very far outside the lines. If we are to change traditional notions of masculinity for the better, we have quite a few lines to cross, and we will have to do something to change the way men are ostracized for crossing lines. We can begin by examining the ways lines are traditionally drawn.
(60 pp.)
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