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Robin A. Deutsch's anthology addresses various traumatic ruptures of the psychoanalytic dyad, including clinical alliances riven by death, suicide, and sexual boundary violation. Candid first-hand accounts often told from the perspective of psychoanalytic candidates convey painful disruptions as rarely before done in the professional literature. These personal narratives communicate how ethical transgressions not only injure patient and analyst, but also splinter the training institute and compromise the psychoanalytic community as a whole. The book searchingly evaluates the responses of analytic institutes to an ethical breach from the victim's point of view and outlines how such clinical corruptions can better be handled.
Robin A. Deutsch's anthology was inspired by the sudden death of her analyst during treatment, an experience we both despairingly share. This book, over its four sections, broadens in subject matter to address various traumatic ruptures of the analytic frame: clinical alliances riven by death, suicide, and sexual boundary violation. Candid first-hand accounts often told from the perspective of psychoanalytic candidates convey these intimate and painful experiences as rarely before done in the literature. Every author in this collection is referenced here, to greater or lesser degree. These narratives elucidate ethical and emotional concerns and how they are different when a person in the dyad has died in contrast to when one has committed a sexual boundary infraction. They communicate how ethical transgressions not only injure patient and analyst, but also splinter the training institute and compromise the analytic profession as a whole. This book searchingly evaluates the response of analytic institutes to an ethical breach from the victim's point of view and outlines how such clinical corruptions can better be managed.
In the wake of her analyst's demise, Deutsch describes being “trapped between mourning and melancholia” (p. 39). Conflicted in he