Good Goodbyes: Termination in Therapy from Beginning to Ending, Edition 2
May 2025 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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128
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About this ebook
Good Goodbyes offers a comprehensive model for ending therapy well. Bad "goodbyes" in therapy can contribute to therapist burnout and pessimism regarding the efficacy of therapy. Within the framework of the therapeutic relationship and a clearly articulated set of goals for therapy, Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick describe how to recognize and respond to termination themes from the very beginning of treatment. Each phase of treatment brings its own challenges, as well as the risk of premature ending by patient or therapist. Each chapter in this book addresses specific danger signals to look out for and helpful techniques to support treatment. Organized in a pedagogical question-and-answer formant and with vivid clinical examples from all diagnostic groups and all stages of development, Good Goodbyes is a fundamental text on termination for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapists.
New to this Second Edition:
New preface by the authors discussing updated content and outlining the book format, for pedagogical useUpdated organization for course usage and flow of Socratic question dialogueUpdated terminologyThematic application to practicing psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, therapists, and counselors, and their relationships with clients as well as students and traineesExamination of the micro-terminations and transitions at each treatment stage
New to this Second Edition:
New preface by the authors discussing updated content and outlining the book format, for pedagogical useUpdated organization for course usage and flow of Socratic question dialogueUpdated terminologyThematic application to practicing psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, therapists, and counselors, and their relationships with clients as well as students and traineesExamination of the micro-terminations and transitions at each treatment stage
About the author
Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick are child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysts who trained with Anna Freud. They are on the faculties of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, the New York Freudian Society, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and the University of Michigan Medical School. They have been working with children and families for 40 years and joined other colleagues to found a non-profit psychoanalytic school, Allen Creek Preschool, in Ann Arbor. Both Jack and Kerry Novick have written an array of articles published in peer-reviewed journals, along with two books: Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism (1996) and Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work (2005).
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