By Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg
All through lifestyles we need to take care of significant and minor adjustments in our conditions, with beginnings and endings of relationships, losses and earnings. Such alterations usually reason nice emotional upheavals. How we take care of those determines whether or not they result in actual, psychological, emotional, religious progress or the other: arrest of improvement, hopelessness, melancholy depression or psychological break-down. This ebook examines how assorted contributors process and deal with endings and beginnings within the lifestyles cycle from babyhood to previous age and what is helping or hinders them to profit from those studies.
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Was it merely the loudness of the sound or was it the destructive quality of their voices, conveyed to this foetus, that led to her refusing, from birth, to accept the breast? It took four years of analytic treatment before this patient was able to have a dream that was not terrifying. Then, for the first time, she reported having had a dream which conveyed a feeling of hope; the extremely primitive content of the dream suggested that it went back to a time prior to being able to hear her parents’ voices.
Even asking my group of teachers to consider what it feels like to approach the end of their course at the Tavistock Clinic is usually met with the response that surely this is not the right time to think about it: it is felt to be either too early or too late to do so; in other words, thinking about it is to be avoided. Yet it is well known that there are drop-outs and much absenteeism towards the end of any course of study. After introducing a meeting about ending at the beginning of the third term of the one-year course, absenteeism was no longer a problem.
Because I could not comprehend how our good German friends could become LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE OF ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS 11 our enemies, I felt a need to understand more about human nature and this eventually led me to psychoanalysis and to becoming an analytic psychotherapist. Having been treated as an outcast made me wish to build bridges: between members of different professions, between different religions, as well as trying to bridge the gap between the broadminded spiritual-religious orientation gained in childhood and the psychoanalytic insights acquired in adulthood.