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Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or gangs. It can occur with children from care homes – or from more privileged backgrounds. Sexual exploitation is so addictive that it is really difficult to extract the victims. This is the first book that we are aware of that examines exploitation using a psychoanalytic framework which makes the behaviour and motives of victims and, in some cases, exploiters comprehensible. The book looks at a range of situations from care homes to refugee camps and elite schools.We expect this book to become indispensable for social workers, psychotherapists, counsellors, and care workers who have to tackle child sexual exploitation. Giving up an addiction is a struggle. Our clinical examples show how much and what kinds of work are needed to start to release girls from their addiction to their exploiters.The roots of vulnerability lie in an attack on the maternal function. This is reflected in the huge expansion of day-care taking children from as little as three months old. Care for mothers and children can be transformed. We demonstrate how powerful properly organised maternal-type care can be, to give young people a sound start to their lives.

Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Françoise Dolto's immense project—her conviction that autism is a regression to the archaic.Dolto theorizes that the infant in utero, deep in dreams, is receptive to the audition of “phonemes” during the pre-conscious “archaic stage” of psychosexual maturation. That dream-work on words—an idiosyncratic prehistory at the onset of mental and emotional life—secures the unconscious circulation of affect and the ontogeny of thought long prior to speech, seeding associative thinking and facilitating self-regulation. Kathleen Saint-Onge uses the written work of four nonverbal autistic authors in seeking corroboration for Dolto's formulations, finding thoughtful self-reflections that relate the experience of living in silence with relentless anxiety while relying on regression as a defence. Dolto's unprecedented insights into the infant's earliest learning carry formidable implications for autism interventions, and for primary language and literacy. At issue is an enduring susceptibility to archaic echoes—the haphazard, securing return of pre-invested phonemes—in communicative exchanges, including reading and writing.Rethinking Autism with Dolto considers unconscious processes as inherently reparative, heralding the responsibility education holds for human health, and supports a rethinking of autism that presumes competence. Readers are invited to new conversations in psychoanalysis, child development, education and linguistics through an exploration of the unconscious concomitants of first language acquisition.

Social worker, psychoanalyst, and child-development expert Selma Fraiberg's iconic book, The Magic Years, has influenced generations of caregivers, therapists, and clinicians since its publication in 1959. No less rich are the essays that make up this new, accessibly priced reissue of her Selected Writings. Like The Magic Years, these essays (including her hugely influential “Ghosts in the Nursery”) glean their insights from years of clinical study and contain Fraiberg's synthesis of and groundbreaking contributions to attachment theory, child psychology, social work, and, through her work with blind children, the experience of disability in infancy and childhood. Clinical rigor paired with attunement to the emotional lives of her subjects was Fraiberg's hallmark: as her husband Louis writes in his preface to this volume, “Once, when asked how she knew what babies were thinking, she replied, ‘They tell me.'” Lucid and elegantly written, her Selected Writings will remain a valuable resource for new generations of social workers, mental-health professionals, educators, and others who work with young children.

This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her ideas have been further developed. As Klein's ideas have opened the exploration of deeper and more primitive areas of the mind, they have led to extensive theoretical and technical developments across the world, in various schools of psychoanalytic thought. This book addresses Klein's early papers on her work with children and her extensions of Freud's ideas, as well as her divergence from them, highlighting Klein's emphasis on loving relationships in the mitigation of hatred, in children's overall development and in the drive for reparation. Examples from Klein's clinical work with children and adults are included to illustrate and illuminate her points. Offering clear expositions of complex concepts and linking to more detailed sources of information, this book is important reading for all clinicians, trainees and students interested in emotional development and in the analysis of children and adults.

This vivid and moving volume presents the clinical work and writings of Alessandra Cavalli, an internationally known child and adult psychoanalyst who taught and supervised widely, ran infant observation seminars in the UK and Europe and was closely involved in the development of child analysis training in Russia. Informed by a deep knowledge of theory, each chapter draws on many strands of both psychoanalytic and Jungian thought, integrating multiple analytic languages into a coherent clinical language specific to Cavalli. The book includes 11 of her most important papers about work with children and adults, with an introduction by the distinguished Jungian psychoanalyst Warren Colman. Her work was primarily concerned with the impact of trauma on the developing self and the importance of weathering emotional storms in search of meaning, and the book will be fascinating reading for clinicians of different psychoanalytic approaches working with adults and children as well as students of psychotherapy and counselling.

Das Buch liefert – erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum – einen umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung sexualisierter Gewalt in einem Psychotherapieinstitut. Die qualitative Fallstudie nimmt jahrzehntelangen Machtmissbrauch und sexualisierte Gewalt durch den Leiter eines analytischen Kinder- und Jugendinstituts in den Blick. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die in diesem System verstrickten Psychotherapeut•innen zentralen Vorstellungen und Konzepten ihrer Profession nicht gerecht werden: Schweigen, Verleugnung, Rationalisierung, Abwehr von Verantwortung und Ignoranz gegenüber Betroffenen verhindern über lange Zeit die Aufdeckung der Taten und nachhaltige Formen der Aufarbeitung. Das Institutsleben wird von einer dialektischen Spannung zwischen der Notwendigkeit der Bearbeitung und dem Wunsch nach ungestörtem Funktionieren geprägt. Diese Dynamik erweist sich zugleich als Analogie zu Problembewältigungsmustern psychotherapeutischer Patient•innen. Der Fall verweist auf grundsätzlicheProbleme im Bereich der Psychotherapie, die vor allem mit einem strukturellen Machtungleichgewicht und ausgeprägten Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen sowohl im Kontext der Ausbildung als auch im Behandlungssetting zu tun haben. Aus den Erkenntnissen dieser empirischen Untersuchung werden professions- und organisationsethische Überlegungen abgeleitet und – darauf basierend – konkrete Empfehlungen zur Prävention von sexualisierter Gewalt in Psychotherapieinstituten formuliert.

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood.This book, led by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), commits to shedding light on new developments in theory and practice in this area.Each chapter offers an expression of current thinking and clinical work with child and adolescent patients, as well as with their parents, families, and community. The complex contributions by brilliant and erudite scholars offer a fresh take on the existing body of thought on infancy and childhood in psychoanalysis that will challenge and enlighten readers of all backgrounds. Within these perspectives, the development of internal and external bonds is the focus, as well as a consideration of how analysts work in their time with young patients at these key moments of the life cycle.With their expertise in childhood, the contributors share complex views on the link between analysis with young children and psychoanalysis with adults, making it an essential read for child and adolescent psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Margaret Rustin's writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her understanding, and her original insights into the complexities of child and adolescent psychotherapy. Here a selection of her work, edited by Kate Stratton and Simon Cregeen, is brought together in a collection which focuses mainly on clinical issues and concerns: the dynamics of the interaction between patient and therapist in the consulting room; the task of assessment; the particular needs of children and young people whose early development has been distorted by trauma, loss or neglect; and the framework and skills required for effective psychoanalytic work with parents. Illustrated by vivid narratives detailing the strains and possibilities of the therapeutic encounter, this book is a record of clinical work and thinking over 50 years of psychoanalytic practice. It will prove essential reading for psychoanalysts and child analysts, child psychotherapists, all those training as mental health professionals in work with children and parents, and anyone with an interest in deepening their understanding of the emotional lives of children and young people.

Issu de l'expérience clinique et du travail de recherche de l'auteur, cet ouvrage s'appuie sur un certain nombre de textes et de concepts issus des enseignements de Freud et de Lacan en lien avec la psychanalyse et plus particulièrement la psychanalyse avec les enfants. Ainsi, sont interrogés les apports lacaniens concernant : le passage du père aux Noms-du-Père ; le stade du miroir et la fonction du « Je » ; les complexes familiaux et la structure du sujet. Quelques cas cliniques sont également repris et commentés. Le sujet en analyse dans son rapport à l'Autre, aux autres et au monde est donc au centre de ce travail théorico-clinique prenant en compte la lalangue, le langage et la parole, la fonction de la lettre et la question de l'être, l'interprétation du désir, l'éthique de la psychanalyse et le désir de l'analyste, l'enfant objet du désir, l'interprétation du désir et la fin de l'analyse.

Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital presents the experiences of a psychoanalyst working within a hospital paediatric department. It explores the possibilities for applying psychoanalytic theory when working with children in hospital and how it can be extended to include parents, caregivers, health care staff and volunteers. Each chapter of the book addresses an issue or area of professional experience that presented Franco D'Alberton with clinical or technical questions, outlining the core concern and then exploring his attempt to provide answers to these questions. This volume presents many possible applications of psychoanalytic theory in a paediatric hospital, encompassing issues encountered by health care staff and volunteers as well as by parents and their hospitalized children, such as physical pain, meetings and information sharing and group settings. It also describes therapeutic interventions directed towards both children and parents.This book will be key reading for child and adolescent psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinical psychologists in practice and in training. It will also interest clinicians seeking to understand how psychoanalytic work can be applied in hospital and health care settings.

Die Analyse des Kleinen Hans war die erste Anwendung der Psychoanalyse in der Behandlung eines kleinen Kindes und auch die erste Psychoanalyse, die unter Supervision durchgeführt wurde. Sie gehört zu den fünf großen Vignetten, die Freud publizierte, und war von dessen Interesse getragen, bei Kindern sexuelle Wünsche nachzuweisen. Siegfried und Judith Zepf geben einen Überblick über die bislang ganz unterschiedlichen Deutungen von Hans'Behandlungsgeschichte, ehe sie ihre neue Interpretation vorstellen. Sie argumentieren, dass Freud die Einflüsse der Ödipuskomplexe der Eltern bei der Entwicklung von Hans und bei der Entstehung seiner Pferdephobie vernachlässigte. Unter Einbezug von Laplanches Konzept der rätselhaften Botschaften zeigen sie auf, wie sich über unbewusste Mechanismen elterlicher Projektionen, Verschiebungen und kindliche Identifizierungen das elterliche Unbewusste in die Psyche des Kindes eintragen kann.

O coração pensante é a continuação natural de Companhia viva, o livro altamente influente e agora clássico de Anne Alvarez sobre o trabalho com crianças vítimas de distúrbios e so_imentos severos. Com base em sua experiência de mais de cinquenta anos como psicoterapeuta de crianças e adolescentes, Alvarez usa exemplos clínicos detalhados e explora os motivos pelos quais uma perspectiva terapêutica pode funcionar em detrimento de outra. A autora identifica três níveis diferentes de trabalho analítico e comunicação: o nível explicativo (o “por quê-porquê”), o nível descritivo (o “o quê”) e o nível de vitalização intensificado (o ganho de acesso ao próprio sentir por crianças com dissociação crônica, apatia decorrente de desespero ou autismo “não atraído”). O livro será útil a psicoterapeutas, psicanalistas, psicólogos clínicos e educacionais, psiquiatras infantis, assistentes sociais, professores de crianças com necessidades especiais e cuidadores de crianças com distúrbios.

Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives: Original Papers and Critical Reflections brings together a selection of previously unpublished material by Melanie Klein, one of the key architects of child psychoanalysis, and sets it in the context of the contemporary understanding of her work, with contributions by a range of leading Klein scholars.The book contains lectures, letters, notes and an autobiography by Klein, as well as key pieces of analysis on Klein's work from major Kleinian analysts, with contributions from Claudia Frank, R.D. Hinshelwood, Jane Milton and Maria Rhode based on wide-ranging research into Klein's archive. Bringing the work of Claudia Frank to an English audience for the first time, there is also a new chapter by Maria Rhode featuring further case material on Klein's famous young patient ‘Dick', the subject of Klein's 1930 paper on symbolism, which is discussed in relation to current ideas about the autistic spectrum. This material fleshes out our understanding of Klein's thinking, shines new light on the major features of her work, and the influences on the analyst herself.Melanie Klein was a pioneering and sometimes controversial figure within psychoanalysis, whose new approach to child analysis and new understanding of our inner world were revolutionary. Her large archive (now available online) contains papers and drafts of papers, notes for lectures and seminars and a vast amount of case material, all of which is of scientific interest. Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives will be of great interest to Klein scholars, as well as to researchers and readers in the wider history and development of psychoanalysis.

Donald Winnicott, the first pediatrician to become a child psychoanalyst, was the most influential and important child therapist in the field of child clinical psychiatry and psychology. Having consulted with over 30,000 mothers and children as part of his work in London city hospitals over 40 years, he had an almost magical capacity to engage with children and to soothe and guide parents through their most anxiety-ridden times. His optimistic notions of the “good enough” mother has calmed generations of parents; his depiction of security blankets (“transitional objects”) found full flower in the Charlie Brown character Linus; his stressing of the importance of the capacity to play as the gold standard of mental health had an enormous impact on preschool and kindergarten education and his focus on the insidious impact of a lack of authenticity or “false self” has led to countless papers on the malevolent impact of narcissism at both the individual and societal levels.Attachment, Play and Authenticity: Winnicott in a Clinical Context, 2nd edition, attempts to take these contributions and place them directly in the consulting room. Actual child-therapist vignettes are paired with each chapter's theoretical contributions. The reader is thus first transported to Winnicott's powerfully alive depictions of what happens in healthy and pathological mother-child interaction and then brought to see how these depictions manifest themselves in child therapy. No other work on Winnicott has applied this focus to the integration of theory and practice.

In the nearly one hundred years that have elapsed since Freud's publication of his pioneering work with “Little Hans,” psychoanalysis has transformed not only our clinical work with children, but has immeasurably enriched our understanding of normal child and adolescent development as well as developmental deviations and derailments. We have gradually come to understand childhood and adolescence as a complex tapestry of developmental themes, conflicts, and crises; sometimes discontinuous or discrete, at other times, harmonious and integrated, yet always occurring within a transactional matrix of environmental influences and internal experience.In this transdisciplinary anthology, eight authors explore the changing terrain of child and adolescent psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. The contributions, which reflect theoretical and clinical heterogeneity, are both innovative and varied, and range from the highly abstract and theoretical to those that consider very specific dimensions of clinical process. Collectively, they make a compelling case for the continued relevance of psychoanalytic ideas in the treatment of children and adolescents. With insightful contributions by expert psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, and clinical psychologists, Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Treatment of Children and Adolescents: Tradition and Transformation is essential reading for child and adolescent therapists. Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Treatment of Children and Adolescents will increase your knowledge of: the function of play in normal development--and within the treatment relationship psychoanalytic theories and research investigations linking early object loss to depression the nature of adolescent depression the theoretical and clinical dimensions of a two-systems approach to understanding psychopathology and the clinical process the dynamic meaning and clinical management of drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity, eating disorders, violence, and other self-destructive behaviors the complexities of treating children with neuropsychological deficits

El trabajo psicoanalítico con un niño es siempre una aventura..., un recorrido abierto en el que nos jugamos, dibujamos y desdibujamos, perdemos compostura, nos encontramos y desencontramos, en un descubrimiento conjunto del niño y de nosotros mismos. Al mismo tiempo, los padres van a estar incluidos de entrada en el análisis del niño. Si los pensamos como sujetos marcados por deseos y prohibiciones, preocupados por los avatares de su hijo, ¿cómo intervenir con ellos? Intervenciones en la clínica psicoanalítica con niños habla de las primeras entrevistas, del trabajo psicoanalítico con los padres y de las intervenciones que posibilitan estructuración psíquica en el niño mismo, aun en momentos muy tempranos de la vida, así como de los diferentes lenguajes en los que el niño se expresa. Analizar niños supone estar disponibles a jugar, dibujar, escuchar, a conectarnos a través de ruidos o gestos... Deberemos estar atentos a las acciones, a los movimientos, a los grafismos y no solamente a la palabra. A veces hay que develar varias historias para posibilitar que se arme una, que se despliegue una trama, un sostén interno que permita seguir creciendo.

Esta obra, dirigida a psicólogos, educadores, profesionales relacionados con el desarrollo infantil y lectores en general, contiene una comprensión actualizada de la infancia, el trauma y la resiliencia. Aborda el impacto de las interferencias en el desarrollo, la salud mental y la personalidad, a partir de la teoría dinámica del desarrollo infantil que permite explicar las experiencias tempranas y su relación con la psicopatología del adulto. Con el respaldo de su amplia experiencia investigativa, los autores presentan una estrategia de intervención psicológica para la recuperación psicoafectiva en niños y niñas a través de técnicas lúdico-educativas.

Paediatric psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott is widely recognized as a remarkable clinician. Deprivation, regression, play, antisocial tendencies and'the use of the object'are part of the many clinical conceptions he conceived, and here Laura Dethiville explains each in a clear and precise way, highlighting Winnicott's originality and enduring relevance. The Clinic of Donald W. Winnicott offers all readers a glimpse of what Winnicott brings to the understanding of the human being, and will appeal to students new to his work, as well as practitioners looking for a concise overview of his work.

Melanie Klein lesen ist eine Einführung in das Werk einer herausragenden Psychoanalytikerin des 20. Jahrhunderts, die vor allem für ihre Beteiligung an der Entwicklung der Kinderanalyse und ihre höchst anschauliche Darstellung unserer inneren Welt bekannt ist. Ausführliche Ausschnitte aus ihren Schriften sowie die kenntnisreichen Kommentare von Margaret Rustin und Michael Rustin eröffnen einen Zugang zu Kleins klinischer und theoretischer Arbeit. Ausgehend von ihrer therapeutischen Arbeit mit Kindern und Jugendlichen entwickelte Klein Konzepte wie das der projektiven Identifizierung, der paranoid-schizoiden und der depressiven Position, der unbewussten Phantasie oder der von Beginn des Lebens an bestehenden Objektbezogenheit des Menschen. Mit ihren revolutionären Erkenntnissen hat Klein unser Verständnis für unbewusste Prozesse nachhaltig erweitert und Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, auch mit schwer gestörten Patientinnen und Patienten therapeutisch zu arbeiten. Margaret Rustin und Michael Rustin stellen zudem Kleins Ansichten zu Aspekten klar, bei denen sie oft missverstanden wurde, wie zum Beispiel der Frage nach dem Einfluss der Umwelt und der Rolle des Neides.

The Psychoanalyst and the Child explores the unique nature of psychoanalytic work with children. This book is based on more than 30 years of practice and reflection within the framework of the Alfred Binet Centre in Paris, France. The very great diversity of situations encountered at the Centre brings the issue of therapeutic indications to the forefront. Michel Ody focuses on the diversification of fifteen clinical situations and their theorization, ranging from basic consultation to psychoanalytic treatment. With this framework as his starting-point, he looks at the common features between the therapeutic consultation – a consultation that becomes therapeutic – and the analytic treatment, as well as what differentiates them. This implies examining, at the technical level, the different forms of interventions and interpretations presented as well as their metapsychological articulation. Ody draws on decades of clinical expertise to set out not just the basic considerations and problems typically encountered in work with this patient group, but clear guidelines for methodology and technique.Psychoanalysis can be an intellectual process, dependent on the ability of the patient to express themselves verbally, which can make working clinically with children challenging. The Psychoanalyst and the Child seeks to help psychoanalysts through the most challenging of clinical treatments with this patient group.

A clínica do autismo segue fertilizando o campo psicanalítico. E este livro é um exemplo disso. Muito além de se manterem circunscritas à especificidade dessa clínica, as questões aqui desdobradas participam do que de mais interessante vem sendo produzido na psicanálise contemporânea. Entre elas, encontramos algumas saborosas formulações, como “simbolização em presença”, do francês René Roussillon, e “três tempos da lei materna”, do uruguaio Victor Guerra. Merece destaque a preciosa discussão sobre as relações entre objeto subjetivo, objeto tutor, objeto transicional, objeto autístico e objeto fetiche. O aprofundamento dessa reflexão promete ser de grande valor para o porvir da psicanálise. Luciana Pires

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Diverse psychoanalytic ideas and individual styles are represented, challenging the historical allegiance in analytic child therapy to particular, and so often singular, schools of thought. Each of the distinguished contributors offers a conceptually grounded and clinically rich account of child development, addressing topics such as refl ective functioning, the role of play, dreaming, trauma and neglect, the development of recognition and mutuality, autism, adoption, and non- binary conceptions of gender. Extended clinical vignettes offer the reader clear vision into the convergence of theory and practice, demonstrating the potential of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to move child development forward. This book will appeal to all practicing mental health professionals.

Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight into the unconscious domain of psychology in human beings. Klein began her work by developing a method of psychoanalysis for children, who suffer from anxiety and other, often unrecognised, conflicts, which enabled understanding of those crucial early steps in the development of human mind and identity. Although she initiated one strand of clinical and theoretical developments, many of her discoveries are well-regarded by other schools of psychoanalysis. The book contains four parts, as well as further reading suggestions and a helpful glossary of key terms. Part I introduces Melanie Klein in the context of her life, her early interest in psychoanalysis and her first discoveries; Part II takes up the development of her technique of child analysis and discusses the ways in which her insights and conclusions in this area influenced the technique of adult analysis and the more general understanding of the human mind; Part III focuses on further scientific and clinical developments in psychoanalytic technique – especially those referring to the understanding and treatment of serious emotional disturbance, e.g. psychosis or affective disorders; Part IV focuses on contemporary developments in Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis, considering clinical, cultural, and socio-political applications. Each chapter poses a basic question at the outset, provides an account of how Klein faced this question and worked with it to develop her ideas, and ends by posing a follow up question to be addressed in the subsequent chapter. This book will greatly appeal to readers from any field seeking a clear and concise introduction to Melanie Klein. It will also interest researchers and professionals working within the field of psychoanalysis seeking a succinct overview of Melanie Klein's contribution.

Over a period of several decades, the author evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He believed that, in the right case, a full and free use of the first interview can yield rich rewards, and he claimed that the right cases for this are common. He hoped that, by presenting these case studies, he would introduce the reader to the exciting potential of his approach, which depends as much on selection (of therapist) as on training. Here is his presentation - seventeen case histories whose significance for child psychiatry is in the tradition of Freud's case histories of the treatment of adult neurotics. Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry provides a fruitful feedback to psychoanalysis itself.

Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states, guilt, the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique. Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique.

Explorations in Autism is a turning-point in both the understanding of and the clinical approach to autism. The clinical material gradually unveils the geography of the internal mother (which proved crucial for the development of Meltzer's'claustrum'theory) and allowed him to draft, for the first time in psychoanalysis, a theory of the dimensionality of mental life

This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts, and thoughts on such concepts as play in the analytic situation, the fate of the transitional object, regression in psychoanalysis, and the use of silence in psychotherapy.

The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of medicine; indeed, all whose work or practice involves the care of children in health or sickness.An important part of the value of these writings lies in the uniquely binocular view with which the author regards the subjects of his investigation. With him, pediatrics informs psycho-analysis; psycho-analysis illuminates pediatrics. This book is not concerned with innovation in basic psychoanalytic concepts or techniques, but with the formulation and testing-out of ideas whose origin was in the challenge of day-to-day clinical work that was the staple of Winnocott's medical experience throughout his professional life.This book is arranged in three sections. The first represents Winnicott's attitudes as a pediatrician prior to training in psycho-analysis, and demonstrates the degree to which a purely formal pediatric approach requires as an effective complement a deeper understanding of the emotional problems of child development.

This book focuses on adolescence and adolescent states of mind. It is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer's clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a regular basis over many years. Despite his interest in the theoretical advances of psychoanalysis made during what he termed The Kleinian Development, Meltzer believed that clinical supervision was the only way to teach psychoanalytic practice. In effect he treated supervision as an art form just as he regarded psychoanalysis as an art form. The library of his supervision work, almost all recorded outside the UK, thus forms a valuable teaching model for future practitioners, as well as demonstrating Meltzer's wealth of insight into both character development and analytic technique.

While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). Little attention now seems to be paid to the revolutionary character of her work from the start (in the early 1920s) with this age group and its challenges, still relevant today, or to her recognition of the importance of mother-infant relations in the period long before World War II brought investigation into and understanding of problems of attachment, separation and loss. This book addresses these issues and re-explores Klein's work in these (and other) areas. This book is concerned primarily with Klein's work with pre-latency children and aims to give these small children more of the voice today that Melanie Klein herself discovered.

Este livro transmite as experiências de trabalho de Björn Salomonsson como psicanalista com pais e bebês. Foi escrito para psicoterapeutas e psicanalistas que têm interesse, ou apenas curiosidade, sobre uma perspectiva psicanalítica a respeito da relação entre pais e filhos. Mas também é indicado para psicoterapeutas trabalhando com outras idades e settings, por exemplo, casais, grupos e mesmo psicoterapia individual. Há uma razão especial para convidar esse último grupo. Todo psicoterapeuta que trabalha com um paciente adulto, às vezes, tem a impressão de estar falando com uma criança, ou mesmo com um bebê. Por trás das explicações racionais e das teorias elaboradas dos adultos, o psicoterapeuta ouve a voz de uma criança humilhada ou de um bebê em luto. O trabalho com pais e bebês pode oferecer uma nova perspectiva para essas psicoterapias. Enfim, este livro é para todo aquele que já tenha pensado a respeito do mundo interno dos bebês, seja com fascinação, alegria, dúvida ou preocupação.

Comment avoir des règles immuables pour pénétrer le monde interne d'un homme ou d'un enfant? La technique est au service de l'instauration d'un cadre permettant au patient de développer librement sa pensée. Il s'agit bien d'une technique nourrie de science et d'art. Elle doit s'adapter à la personnalité et à la pathologie de chacun. La technique est indispensable tout au long d'un traitement psychanalytique. Ce sont les patients qui guident quant aux bien-fondés de la technique utilisée. Les enfants, eux, savent bien où est leur souffrance et quelle est l'exacte rencontre qui permet de la soulager.

Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein's works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance. Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein's work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself. The book provides a lucid account of Klein's published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis.Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.

Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them. Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide shows how these aims can be achieved for the most effective clinical outcome with children from infancy up to late adolescence. Björn Salomonsson and Majlis Winberg Salomonsson draw on extensive case material which reveals the essence of communication between child and therapist. They enfranchise the patient of all ages as an equal participant in the therapeutic relationship. Presented in letter form the cases contain no professional terms. Only the final chapter contains theoretical commentaries applicable to each case. These terms and theories help to explain a child's behaviour, the analyst's technique and the background to the disorder. This is new creative development in child therapy and analysis which is written in a very accessible style. Dialogues with Children and Adolescents will be essential reading for beginners in psychoanalytic work with children and will cast a fresh light on such work for more experienced clinicians. It will also appeal to the non-professional lay reader.

Cet ouvrage est une contribution à la question mémorielle chez des enfants et des adolescents confrontés à un génocide, et notamment à la Shoah. Comment les jeunes reçoivent-ils cette mémoire, transmise par la famille ou par l'école? La position est différente selon que cette'Mémoire'est transmise au niveau inconscient ou acquise de façon plutôt consciente. L'auteur envisage la psychanalyse comme outil de lecture du processus génocidaire dans ses effets subjectifs sur l'enfant. Il utilise un certain nombre d'écrits de témoins et de rencontres avec d'anciens'enfants cachés'.

Theoretically anchored and historically informed, Six Children is a book about the nuances of child psychoanalysis as these unfold in the encounter with different forms of early life anguish. Addressing autistic, homeless, and despondent children on the one hand, and greedy, betrayed, and angry children on the other, the book attempts to integrate developmental deficits, intrapsychic conflicts, and constitutional givens in evolving a deeper understanding of both severe and milder psychopathology. Ample clinical illustrations are provided and technical interventions pertinent to each of these situations are carefully fleshed out. Equal attention is given to holding and interpretation, family intervention and individual focus, and affect management and mentalization. The fact that the six main chapters of the book are sandwiched between a careful review and update of the field of child analysis makes the book especially suited for being used as a teaching tool in didactic curricula. A comprehensive and carefully selected bibliography imparts the book a scholarly quality, which exists alongside the text's literary and humane cadence.