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Termination starts at the beginning. Terminations and beginnings are always intertwined. And most terminations do not have finality. Only death does.
Man's alienation from the Absolute paradoxically becomes a unifying element among men.
Although countertransference and other feelings of therapists are given recognition in the literature, they are usually more or less glossed over. Obviously, there are notable exceptions. Freud himself is among the most candid. Yet it seems that a detailed presentation of the processes of countertransference and transference in therapist and patient during the termination phase of analysis would help highlight universal issues which otherwise remain relatively obscure, dormant, and possibly isolated from emotion Buxbaum, 1950.
Brief summary of the circumstances leading to this study may help adjust the perspective of the microscope under which the data will be seen by the reader. Approximately fourteen months after the death of my 18 year-old son, I approached a senior colleague, Rudolf Ekstein, Ph. D., with several simultaneous problems, needs, and desires. Highly aware of my grief and mourning, I was concerned as to how these feelings might create difficulties in my management of a 24-year-old male patient who was then