Book Announcement by Shoshana Ringel (USA)
This book addresses grief and mourning between patient and therapist and examines how their experiences permeate the analytic space and the therapeutic process. It explores personal loss of parents and partners, loss generated by mass trauma through the lens of the Holocaust, the immigrant experience, COVID-19, and the environment. Loss, Grief and Transformation provides a unique focus on the therapist’s personal experience of loss, including the loss of connection to self and others. Contributors to this Routledge volume hail from a range of countries and cultures, including Ireland, Wales, Iran, Italy, Israel and the USA, and from a range of theoretical perspectives, including Relational psychoanalysts, self psychologists and art therapists.
This timely contribution will aid therapists who process loss in their own lives and in the lives of their patients. Chapters cover how the lost other continues to live within one’s mind and within the analytic relationship, how loss impacts one’s internal self system, and how loss associated with traumatic experience with the deceased continues to reverberate.
Dr. Shoshana Ringel is the author of five books on attachment trauma, and grief and loss. She has published over 50 clinical papers, several in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Self and Context, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Ringel is a professor emerita of the University of Maryland, on faculty at the psychoanalytic program ICP&P in Washington, D.C., and co-director of their fellowship program. She has presented her papers at IARPP and IAPSP.
Shoshana Ringel, Ph.D.
Columbia, Maryland
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