Posted by Willful on April 9, 2014, at 10:07:46
In reply to Re: Ugh, so sorry » Willful, posted by Dinah on April 7, 2014, at 3:59:03
Hi Dinah, I'm thinking about what you wrote and want to respond, but I've been terribly busy and emotionally drained myself.
As I was thinking about you, I remembered a book I had read many years ago, about what happens when a therapist/analyst becomes ill.
It's called "Illness in the Analyst: Implications for the Treatment Relationship. " Harvey J. Schwartz and Ann-Louise Silver, Editors. 1990.; Laura Barbanel, Rachelle Dattner, Nina D. Fieldsteel, Phyllis Ziman-Tobin and Norma P. Simon. The Death of the Psychoanalyst (Panel Presentation), Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1989, pp. 412-447.
It's on Amazon, but costs $45,00. I'm not sure how I read it, because I don't have the book-- probably I took it out of the library-- Are there any have any medical schools in town? because they, or a university with a PhD psych program would be the most likely places to find it.
There's a review in:
The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal.
Publication Info
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
Article DOI: 10.1525/jung.1.1992.10.4.27
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jung.1.1992.10.4.27which is available to me through a university library. It should be available generally, though, because I believe JSTOR has opened its archive of journal articles to the public. So maybe you can read the review, which should also be valuable.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jung.1.1992.10.4.27 is the url of the review in JSTOR.
which actually I notice is also in the above cite.
If you have trouble accessing it, I can send an attached file to any email address you have. If it's possible through babblemail (which I'm not sure), I can do that.
I'm relieved that so much healing has gone on-- I very much hope that you can find a way of mourning this loss- although it is terribly complicated by the way it happened. He owed you -- and all his patients, but especially you, so much more.
I very much hope that as time goes on, you can gain more and more distance and recover from this extreme disappointment, I would even say betrayal. I continue to be so taken aback by this.
It contrasts so sharply with the way my pdoc handled his illness-- he is clearly profoundly distracted and not well-- by is seeing patients and trying to find appropriate referrals. I had my last appointment with him last week, so this is a very recent thing, although he had alerted me to his retirement a month or two ago.
But he was always what they call a "mensch"-- and remarkable person. For all his good traits, clearly your therapist left you in the most abysmal way-- which you did not deserve.
Emsam.
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