A DEDICATION: GRIEF AND AUTHENTICITY AND THE QUESTIONS THEREIN: TREATMENT OF A PATIENT TRANSFERRED AFTER HER TERMINALLY ILL THERAPIST CLOSED HER PRACTICE
Presenter: AMY ENGEL, LICSW Clinical Director, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy Supervisor, New England Conservatory of Music Counseling Center Private Practice, Brookline, Massachusetts
Discussants: E. JOYCE KLEIN, LICSW Graduate, Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Advanced Candidate, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis Private Practice, Cambridge, Massachusetts RAFAEL ORNSTEIN, MD Candidate, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Private Practice, Brookline, Massachusetts
Moderator:RANDALL H PAULSEN, MD President, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Private Practice, Lexington, Massachusetts
This paper will examine dynamics of dedication, identification and authenticity. It will explore the similarities and differences in how therapist and patient experience these and the tensions therein. The impact and meanings made of the patient’s choice not to “know” the reasons for her therapist’s medical leave will be examined. Likewise it will look at how the current therapist’s knowledge about the health status of the original therapist (also a friend) has impacted the treatment/counter-transference. Excerpts of process from various points in the treatment as well as dialogue between the therapists will be included.
Event: Annual Nature of the Transference Conference
Index Terms: Transference Psychotherapy Grief Dedication Authenticity Identification Engel, Amy Ornstein, Rafael Klein, E Joyce Paulsen, Randall H.
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