Susan A. Lord, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Social Work Department at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. She is a Taos Institute Associate, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Therapy, and maintains a private practice in York, Maine.

Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explores how relational analysts think about and pursue long-term therapeutic relationships in their practices. Many therapists work intensively with their clients over many years and don't necessarily talk about their work. More exploration is needed into what is taking place inside of these long-term relationships.

The chapters cover a range of topics that focus on aspects of the therapeutic relationship that are unique to long-term psychoanalytic work. They include work with various issues such as trauma, death and dying, cross-cultural issues, suffering, mourning, neuropsychoanalysis, unique endings, attachment, intimacy, and the many ways in which therapists change along with their clients as they go through life stages together.

Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychodynamic psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, workers in other mental health fields, graduate students, and anyone who is interested in change processes.

Introduction

Part I: The Terrain

1. An Interview with Joyce Edward JOYCE EDWARD & SUSAN LORD


2. Long-Term Psychotherapy: Whyever Not? (A Question of Assumptions) PATRICIA DEYOUNG


3. It Takes as Long as it Takes: Therapists' Subjective Experiences of Long-Term Therapy JEAN KOTCHER


4. In Defense of Long-Term Treatment: On the Vanishing Holding Environment WILLIAM MEYER


5. Long-Term Treatment in the Rearview Mirror WILLIAM MEYER



Part II: Trauma and Issues of Attachment

6. Mourning the Melancholy Object: Giving Voice to Traumatic Experience CAROL GANZER


7. The Role of Ethnicity and Culture in the Long-Term Treatment of Childhood Trauma SHOSHANA RINGEL


8. It Takes a Long Time to Grow Young: Working Relationally with Developmental Trauma NATALIE PEACOCK-CORRAL


9. Masks, Walls and Metaphors: Reflections on Long-Term Treatment KATHY FARGIONE



Part III: How Could It Be Otherwise?

10. Being Still: Sitting with Suffering in Long-Term Relational Practice JOAN BERZOFF


11. Till Death Do Us Part: Relational Work and Terminal Illness SUSAN LORD


12. Looking Back Through 38 Years of Practicing Relational Psychoanalysis in Search of Answers to the Question of Interminability STEFANIE SOLLOW GLENNON


13. Neuropsychoanalysis and the Repressed: Rendering What is Possible in Long-Term Psychotherapy JANE ABRAMS


14. The Longest Goodbyes: Analysis Everlasting ANTHONY BASS