Mortal gifts: A two-part essay on the therapist's mortality part I: Untimely loss

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 173-204

  Pinsky, Ellen ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Illness; Loss; Mortality; Mourning; Termination; Therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELUSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GRIEF; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MOURNING; PSYCHOANALYSIS; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; DISCLOSURE; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; HUMANS;

EID: 0036599522     PISSN: 00903604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.30.2.173.21949     Document Type: Article

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