ABSTRACT
Much has been written about termination, but as I believe that the jury is still out on the criteria that would justify this event, I refrain from examining the literature on the subject. I draw upon my own recent psychoanalytic experiences in terminating four analyses and from other experiences in bringing analyses to termination with supervised cases. There are many factors to be considered. I wonder, first of all, what the ratio is between the number of analysands who have gone through formal termination and those who began analyses and interrupted or terminated prematurely, and what criteria were used in the former category. I also believe that criteria may possibly be different in cases where it is psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who are in analysis. They are mandated to enter and then re-enter analysis when significant countertransference problems or blind spots develop in the treatment of their own patients.
