It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the termination phase in the treatment process, or the impact difficulties in this phase may have on the final resolution and outcome of treatment, be it in psychoanalysis or in psychotherapy. Detailed understanding of the dynamics and many meanings of the termination process comes mostly from classical psychoanalysis and the in-depth study of this phase as it occurs in the clinical setting. But concepts and understanding derived from the classical analytic situation can also be applied in a modified way to the various psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies or to more supportive forms of treatment. In these undertakings it is necessary to understand and anticipate the dynamics and manifestations of the termination process with an eye to the clinical situation at hand.1