ABSTRACT
Collateral damage, ground zero, nuclear fallout, psychic shrapnel: these wartime metaphors of attack and damage permeate the personal accounts of candidates who have lost their training analysts due to boundary violations. The metaphors of lingering nuclear winter—contamination, fallout, and radiation—find themselves in the voices of these victims of the collateral damage created when training analysts are lost due to ethical violations, particularly those of a sexual nature. This unique type of analyst loss shares the structure and affects of other types of analyst loss, yet has elements that differentiate it powerfully due to the collapse of idealization of the analyst and the attack on the professional identity of the analysand (Burka, 2008; Wallace, 2007, 2010; Gabbard & Wallace; 2010; Young, 2009).
