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Whether it is the ghosts of past losses, acute grief in patient material, fear of life ending, suicidal ideation, or the actual death of a patient or therapist, death is in some ways the bedrock of all therapeutic content and psychodynamic process. Throughout this training, we will begin to explore the barriers to thinking about death together with our patients in a psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Readings will attend to clinician resistance to death, mourning patient loss, and the wider theoretical concept of surrender to help us understand our powerlessness over mortality. Hopefully, this training will help us all talk and think about our own deaths more freely. Attention will be paid to ethical considerations, including maintaing confidentiality while mourning and writing a professional will. Clinicians are welcome to share deidentified case material, as this educational group will serve as a container to share the impact of the patient relationship and mentalize past and future losses.
Whether it is the ghosts of past losses, acute grief in patient material, fear of life ending, suicidal ideation, or the actual death of a patient or therapist, death is in some ways the bedrock of all therapeutic content and psychodynamic process. Throughout this training, we will begin to explore the barriers to thinking about death together with our patients in a psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Readings will attend to clinician resistance to death, mourning patient loss, and the wider theoretical concept of surrender to help us understand our powerlessness over mortality. Hopefully, this training will help us all talk and think about our own deaths more freely. Attention will be paid to ethical considerations, including maintaing confidentiality while mourning and writing a professional will. Clinicians are welcome to share deidentified case material, as this educational group will serve as a container to share the impact of the patient relationship and mentalize past and future losses.