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This paper outlines a constellation around birth in our society that is related to advanced western medicine and the way that families move around the globe. It describes a brief therapy with a three-year-old child who was diagnosed as autistic, and a mother who resorted to 'heroic' defences against the anxiety of being unsupported in a strange country. The therapist undertook to process the catastrophic experiences of the birth as expressed in the child's play and transform the accompanying monstrous fantasies into human experiences and thoughts. By providing a maternal container for both mother and child, the therapist was able to dissolve the couple's negative enmeshment and help create a space in the mother's mind in which she could process her own feelings, and thereby process and understand the child's feelings and communications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores severe physical symptoms exhibited by patients at crucial stages of their analysis, which tend to occur when a big change is foretold in dreams or following interpretative work aimed at providing the patient with insight into his major psychic conflict. C.J. Jung's theory of the bipolarity of the archetypes; Transcendent function and symbolic functioning; Psychologist Michael Fordham's contribution to the new developments in Jungian theory; Psychosomatic states and solutions.

Focuses on the psychological aspects of shame as a negative emotional feeling. Definition of shame; Relation of shame to the social context; Study of shame by psychoanalysts.

Focuses on the psychoanalyst experience in treating a child suffering from psychosis. Analysis of a boy named Jim; Mental problems of the child; Overview of the case.

Analyzes the theory of psychologist Carl G. Jung on archetypes and the archetypal activities of infants and adults. Childhood and family background of the patient of the author; Attacks of anxiety felt by the patient; Archetypal patterns ruling the relationship of the family of the patient; Dissociation occuring in the psyche of the patient; Description on the mask-like defensive system of a person.

Presents the case of Robert, a child who had suffered a separation from the actual mother since infancy and how he was able to express his fears and anxieties within the safe containment of an analytic setting. Analysis of the child's case in reference to Michael Fordham's stories; Importance of the holding of the analyst and her maternal reverie; Factor that contributed to the occurrence of change.

Introduces the method and the seminar on infant observation and discusses the applicability of the Jungian concepts of the self and archetypes to the post-natal phase. Concept of primal self and the dynamic function of de-integrative/re-integrative sequences, as postulated by Michael Fordham; Analysis of observational material; Description of the sequences of de-integration, their length and development, in order to establish the de-integrative/re-integrative capacity of the infant's self.