ABSTRACT
From 1980 to 1986, I worked full time with dying cancer patients and their families as the social worker on a home care hospice team. For years I knew this experience had affected me deeply. Later, as I began psychoanalytic work, I was vaguely aware my hospice experience was in¯uencing my work as an analyst. Until the chance came to make a presentation at the conference on Deaths and Endings that evolved into this book, I never attempted to articulate any precise link between me as ``hospice social worker'' and me as ``psychoanalyst.''
