JOURNAL ARTICLE

"How Can I Trust You When I Know You Can Die?" Surviving the Death of an Analyst in a Child Analysis.

  • Published In: Psychoanalytic Review, 2024, v. 111, n. 1. P. 57 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Stojnić, Aneta 3 of 3

Abstract

This reflection on the initial stages of treatment of a latency girl whose previous analyst died offers some insights into inner workings of mourning in children. The mourning process intersects in complex ways with a developmental stage, object constancy, unconscious phantasies, and conscious ideas about life and death. Clinical material illustrates some challenges that emerge in the transference-countertransference matrix when working with a child who lost both her primary object (the mother) and her transference object (the analyst). The reality of the analyst's death emphasizes that for a child patient the analyst is always a transference object and a real object at once. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Psychoanalytic Review. 2024/03, Vol. 111, Issue 1, p57
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0033-2836
  • DOI:10.1521/prev.2024.111.1.57
  • Accession Number:176336773
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