On Deaths and Endings

Brent Willock is President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a member of the faculty of the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program and the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology. Lori C. Bohm is a Supervising Analyst and member of the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute, New York and Supervisor of Psychotherapy at City College of New York and St Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center. Rebecca C. Curtis is a member of the faculty and Supervisor at William Alanson White Institute, Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University.

Part I: Overture to Finality. Willock, Thoughts for Our Times on Transience and Transformation. Part II: Grief and Mourning. Aragno, Transforming Mourning: A New Psychoanalytic Perspective. Volkan, Individuals and Societies as "Perennial Mourners": Their Linking Objects and Public Memorials. Ryan, Affects, Reconfiguration of Self and Self-states in Mourning the Loss of a Son. White, Failure to Mourn: The Brutal Bargain. Slochower, Beyond the Consulting Room: Ritual, Mourning and Memory. Part III: Childhood and Adolescence. O’Loughlin, On Losses That Are Not Easily Mourned. Weinreb Katz, Looking at the Film American Beauty, Through a Psychoanalytic Lens: Parents Revisit Adolescence. Lobban, Reclaiming the Relationship with the Lost Parent Following Parental Death During Adolescence. Weber, Darth Mader: The Dark Mother. Part IV: Violence and Terror. Kirschner, Sometimes, A Fatal Quest: Losses in Adoption. Fiske, What is Paranoia in a Paranoid World? Transference and Countertransference in the Wake of the World Trade Center Attack. Borg, Just Some Everyday Examples of Psychic Serial Killing: Psychoanalysis, Necessary Ruthlessness, and Disenfranchisement. Part V: Death Instinct? Lombardi, Notes on Negativity. Skelton, Matte Blanco, the Death Drive, and Timelessness. Part VI: Working with Dying Patients. Kaplan, Lessons from Hospice: When the Body Speaks. Long, A Relational Perspective on Working with Dying Patients in a Nursing Home Setting. Herzog, Love and Death: Affect Sharing in the Treatment of the Dying. Part VII: Insights From (and To) Literature. Cameron, Lifetime and Deathtime: Reflections on Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and Beckett’s How It Is. Katsuta, Acceptance of Mortality Through Aesthetic Experience with Nature. Part VIII: Termination. Frankiel, The Long Good-Bye: Omnipotence, Pathological Mourning, and the Patient who Cannot Terminate. Curtis, On the Death of Stephen Mitchell: An Analysand’s Remembrance. Sapountzis, On Sudden Endings and Self-imposed Silences. Part IX: Conclusion. Bohm, The Transformative Potential in the Working Through of Deaths and Endings.