Flirting with Death

Corinne Masur is a child and adult supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. She has been in private practice in Philadelphia for over thirty years. She is the co-director of the Parent Child Center and a founder of the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education and the Philadelphia Declaration of Play, an organization which advocates for the right of all children to have access to free, imaginative play. She has written, lectured and taught on a variety of subjects including early childhood bereavement, mourning, the denial of death, child development and childhood psychopathology. She is on the Faculty of PCOP where she was been the recipient of the J. Alexis Burland teaching award several times.

• Acknowledgements, About the editor and the contributors, Preface, Introduction, 1 Mortality and psychoanalysis: the analyst’s defense against acknowledging mortality and the effect on clinical practice, 2 Psychoanalytic reflections on limitation: aging, dying, generativity, and renewal, Early exposure to danger and loss, Illness, When a patient dies, When an analyst dies, Index