The empirical phenomenological research method (Giogri, 1985) is used to make a prelim- inary enquiry into the post-termination experience for a small number of subjects who have completed a psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The results are presented and discussed in the context of the existing post-termination literature. While the findings support some current post-termination expectations, such as the capacity for self-analysis and a process of mourning, they potentially refute the idea that these unfold chronologically with one post-termination stage being contingent upon another.
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