How Therapy Ends: Premature Breaks and Planned Goodbyes

Therapy ends many different ways: planned and unplanned, successful or not.

In this video I go over the possibilities, including the "termination phase" of treatment that concludes a successful psychodynamic psychotherapy. This is the 9th video in my series on psychodynamic psychotherapy, the original school of psychotherapy that has been with us for about a century, and that emphasizes getting to the root of emotional problems.

Dr. Reidbord is a practicing psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychiatric educator with eons of experience. 🦕 "More Than Meds" debunks oversimplified or misleading messages about therapy and psychiatry, and explains complex mental health concepts in accessible ways.

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Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:57 Premature endings by patient
2:18 Premature endings by therapist
3:35 Endings can hurt
4:19 Ending should be discussed
4:48 Resistance, impasses, & transference
6:46 Time-limited psychotherapy
8:13 Dependency fears
9:33 Signs that therapy is done
11:45 Ending should be collaborative
12:14 The termination phase of treatment
14:03 What happens in termination?
18:14 "Internalizing" the therapist
18:39 Wrap-up

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