Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Christopher Bonovitz, Andrew Harlem, Christopher Bonovitz, Andrew Harlem

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780415742184
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351235488
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Index

Note: Please note that page references to Figures will be in italics. Footnotes will be denoted by the letter ‘n’ and Note number following the page number.

abused children 55, 76, 208; overt abuse 80, 89; physical/sexual abuse 64, 75

action dialogue (case study) 6, 144–146; development 154–155

adoption: and emotional neglect 80; and inner dialogue of therapist see adoption case study (Jason); psychoanalytic treatment of adopted children 54; trauma and attachment 51, 54, 65, 67

adoption case study (Jason): behavioral problems 186, 188, 189, 203; being given up and feelings of shame 194–195; being told about adoption 186; and birth mother 193–194, 196, 197, 200, 216; as “broken baby” 194, 203, 212, 219; delayed development 185–186, 188; The Duck Story 195, 196, 215, 217; envy 188, 209; family vacation 186–187, 206; farm animals, working with 183, 204–205; history 185–186, 201; internal battle, witnessing 186–190; “mummified boy” association 187–188, 207–208; neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Jason in 185, 187, 196, 201, 204, 207, 210; new communication medium, creating 195–197; prenatal development, premature disruption 7; taking pet of therapist (salamander) home and returning 189–192, 197, 210, 211, 217, 218; tic, suffering from 185, 202, 203, 206; see also autistic-contiguity

Adult Attachment Interviews 68; responses to 52–53

adult relationships 15, 16

Aeneas’ helmsman, Greek myth of 230

affect 57, 66

affect attunement 19, 31–32

affective-relational skills 5, 99, 10...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Toward synthesis
• Section I Infant research, reflective functioning, and mutual regulation
• Section II Play, dreaming, and the growth of mind
• Section III Mutuality and the self in relation
• Section IV Reimagining gender
• Index