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PSYCHOANALYSTS’ REFLECTIONS ON DEATHS AND ENDINGS

Posted By: Rebecca Curtis
Date: Sunday, 2 September 2007, at 10:31 a.m.

This new book is available from Routledge

PSYCHOANALYSTS’ REFLECTIONS ON DEATHS AND ENDINGS
Finality, Transformations, New Beginnings

Editors
Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm, Rebecca Curtis

CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Overture for Finality and Transience
1. Thoughts for our Times on Death and Endings -- Brent Willock
Part II: Grief and Mourning
2. Transforming Mourning: A New Psychoanalytic Perspective – Anna Aragno
3. Individuals and Societies as “Perennial Mourners”: Their Linking Objects and Public
Memorials – Vamik Volkan
4. Affects, Reconfiguration of Self and Self-States in Mourning the Loss of a Son –

Judy Ryan
5. Failure to Mourn: The Brutal Bargain – Gail White
6. Outside the Consulting Room: Ritual, Mourning and Memory – Joyce Slochower
Part III: Childhood and Adolescence
7. On Losses that are not Easily Mourned—Michael O’Loughlin
8. Looking at the Film, American Beauty, through a psychoanalytic lens – Anita Katz
9. Reclaiming the Relationship with the Lost Parent following Parental Death during
Adolescence – Glenys Lobban
10. Darth Mader: The Dark Mother – Sara Weber
Part IV: Violence and Terror
11. Sometimes, a Fatal Quest: Losses in Adoption – David Kirschner
12. What is Paranoid in a Paranoid World? Transference and Countertransference in

the Wake of the World Trade Center Attack – Veronica Fiske
13. Just Some Everyday Examples of Psychic Serial Killing: Psychoanalysis, Necessary

Ruthlessness, and Disenfranchisement – Mark Borg
Part V: Contemporary Considerations Pertaining to Freud’s Death Instinct
14. Notes on Negativity – Karen Lombardi
15. Matte Blanco, the Death Drive, and Timelessness – Ross Skelton

Part VI: Working with Dying Patients
16. Lessons from Hospice: When the Body Speaks – Sharron Kaplan
17. A Relational Perspective on Working with Dying Patients in a Nursing Home –

Stephen Long
Part VII: Insights from (and to) Literature
18. Lifetime and Deathtime: Reflections on the Novels of Joyce and Beckett – Olga Cox

Cameron
19. Acceptance of Mortality through Aesthetic Experience with Nature – Yuko Katsuta
Part VIII: Termination
20. The Long Goodbye: Omnipotence, Pathological Mourning, and the Patient who

Cannot Terminate -- Rita Frankiel
21. On the Death of Stephen Mitchell: An Analysand’s Remembrance – Rebecca Curtis
22. On Sudden Endings and Self-Silencing – Ionas Sapountzis

Part IX:
-- Lori C. Bohm