"Natural termination": some comments on ending analysis without setting a date.
This paper is a re-examination of the rule of date setting in termination. It reviews the literature and presents an analytic case which was terminated in what the patient called a "natural" manner, i.e., without the setting of a date. Some ideas about the nature of the rules used in organizing analysis are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology