Endings And Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy And Psychoanalysis

What sets off the termination of analysis and psychodynamic therapy from the variety of endings that enter into all human relationships?  So asks Herbert J. Schlesinger in EM Endings and Beginnings: On Terminating Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis /EM , a work of remarkable clarity, conceptual rigor, and ingratiating readability.  Schlesinger situates termination - which he understands, variously, as a phase of treatment, a treatment process, and a state of mind - within the family of  beginnings and endings that permeate one another throughout the course of therapy.