Contents
Interminableness in Psychotherapy: Propositions and Prefaces
Introduction: Therapy Helps But It Doesn't Cure: A Humbled Look at Long-Term Treatment
The Wolf-Man: A Sad and Interminable Tale
When Is Enough Enough: Issues of Interminability
Psychotherapy: Without Beginning, Without End
"Therapy Is My Hobby": Pseudointimacy and the Interminable Patient
How They Cling Like Shadows: Object Relations and the Difficult Patient
Patients for Life: The Case for Devotion
Dependency and Truth
The Interminable Refusal to Be a Patient and the Equally Interminable Opposition to End the Non-Treatment Relationship
Termination: A Never-Ending Process
The Psychotherapist as the Interminable Patient
Productive Psychotherapy With the Interminable Patient
The Resolution of a Paranoid Episode in the First Year of a Lengthy Treatment
The Interminable Patient and the Terminable Therapist
Coping With the Interminable Patient: Eight Suggestions for Therapists
