This paper describes the re-accessing of early trauma, longings, and subsequent repression in a 91-year-old man who enters psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The precipitant is both a loss and the infliction of severe psychological pain occasioned by the arrival of a grandson.

About the Presenter:

Jim Herzog, MD, is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a supervisory analyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous articles on child analysis and a very important book, Father Hunger: Exploration with Adults and Children (2001).