The empty couch : the taboo of ageing and retirement in psychoanalysis / / edited by Gabriele Junkers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452750603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hove, East Sussex : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-38474-1; 1-299-38676-8; 1-135-94638-8
• Edizione: [Dual ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): JunkersGabriele
• Disciplina: 150.19/5
• Soggetti: Psychoanalysts; Retired scientists; Retirement - Psychological aspects; Aging - Psychological aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / Civitarese and Ferro -- Preface / Junkers -- Prologue / Ferro and Civatrese -- Growing older as psychoanalysts -- The ageing psychoanalyst : thoughts on preparing for a life after the couch / Junkers -- Does and elderly psychoanalyst have a role to fill? / Quinodoz -- Perhaps later-- transience and its meaning for the analysts / Junkers -- Growing older as an analyst : problems of ethics and practice based on personal experience / Fredrik Thaulow -- Psychoanalyst : a profession for an immortal teising, narcissistic challenges for aging analysts / Denis -- Illness and ending -- When the body speaks and the psychoanalyst falls ill / Junkers -- Fajardo, life-threatening iilness in the analyst -- Analysis lost and regained / Traesdal -- Life-long analysis? / Carle -- Institutional parts of ending -- Containing psychoanalysis : the analytic institution / Junkers -- Ageing in European psychoanalytic societies : psychoanalytic practice : terminable or interminable / Klockars -- What candidates say about psychoanalytical perspectives on ageing / Marino -- Giving up and important role in psychoanalytic organisations / Laks Eizirik -- ; Psychoanalyst assistance committees : philosophy and practicalities / Kavka -- Now is the time for action : the professional will : an ethical responsibility of the analyst and the profession / Kay O'Neill -- The ageing candidate : will the empty couch become an empty institute? / Teresa Hooke -- References -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of ageing for psychoanalysts, exploring the analyst's attitude towards getting older, impermanence and sense of time and space.? Covering a wide range of topics Gabriele Junkers brings together expert contributors who discuss the problems of getting physically ill and how to conduct psychoanalysis as an ill therapist. Chapters also address the effects that a