As an introduction to the panel on “Aging, Dying, and the Analytic Process,” and to the Focus of this issue of The Psychoanalytic Review, this article offers personal comments linked to affective neuropsychoanalytic theory, and advocates an ability to think about illness and death as an integral part of lived experience.
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