Download Author: Kupers, Terry A. M.D.

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Freud on Termination

Freud could be brilliant in his theoretical discussion of termination—an abstract discussion about when the natural point to end arrives—but he seemed less capable of helping his analysands with their actual feelings about the loss.

The Termination of Psychoanalysis after Freud

This chapter is in two parts: the first deals with specific developments on termination as expressed in the literature, the second with changes in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis that radically alter the meaning of termination.

The Clinical Logic of Termination

This chapter will serve as the transition from the purely clinical discussion to one that integrates the clinical and the social levels. The concept of a clinical logic touches on both.

The Brief Therapy Alternative

There are three reasons for including a chapter on brief therapy in this discussion of termination. First, the time limits imposed by brief therapists tend to exaggerate certain termination issues. Second, it is an opportunity to make the discussion of termination more inclusive. The third reason for including a chapter on brief therapy is that it serves to expose the contradiction between the clinical logic of termination and the fact that means more than clinical condition seem to determine the length of one’s therapy.

Therapy in Pieces

More and more, clients enter therapy wishing to work through one or another circumscribed issue, end the therapy when they feel satisfied with the immediate results, and then return to be in therapy again when another crisis arises. It is hard to say which came first, the brief therapy or the pattern whereby more and more people begin to utilize therapy in pieces over a life time. Whichever it is, the whole meaning of termination changes.

The Community of Therapy Consumers

The growth of a community of willing therapy consumers significantly influences the way termination is theorized and conducted. Therefore the discussion of termination must take into account the culture of therapy consumption.

Revisioning Men’s Lives: Gender, Intimacy, and Power

The challenge that confronts men is to find ways to be powerful without oppressing anyone, and in the process to redefine power, heroism, and masculinity. This is an immense challenge. And men will never meet it in isolation. We need new kinds of bonds among men and between men and women, straight and gay, if we are to construct, collectively, new forms of masculinity and new and better gender relations. (340 pp.)

The Men’s Movement

In this chapter I will examine the strengths and shortcomings of the psychological/psychotherapeutic, the mythopoetic/spiritual, and the political/pro-feminist approaches, and suggest that an integration of all three is needed if we are to redefine power and significantly restructure gender roles and gender relations. (47 pp.)

Ending Therapy: The Meaning of Termination

Recent articles in the popular press reveal a disturbing picture of psychotherapy: greedy, unethical, or perhaps simply ignorant therapists fostering dangerously dependent, financially draining, needlessly lengthy relationships with their patients. An integral part of the therapeutic process, termination has rarely been the focus of clinical discussion. Does therapy go on too long? How can its success be judged? What do therapists say about ending therapy? In this important volume, psychiatrist Terry Kupers confronts these questions, exploring when, how, and why therapy ends. (222 pp.)