Technique in child and adolescent analysis (Karnac, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-127) and index
These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from widely differing theoretical backgrounds and use a broad variety of metapsychological concepts, among them contemporary Kleinian, post-Bionian classical Freudian. This collection helps widen our understanding of technique with children and adolescents and together they show a very modern psychoanalytic technique may be emerging from modern recent work with children and adolescents
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Biographical Notes; Introduction; Chapter One: Problems of technique in analysis of children and adolescents: transference-interpretation-play; Chapter Two: "Lillifee thinks she's an arsehole." Three levels of technique in child analysis: containment, transformation, interpretation; Chapter Three: Clinical and technical problems in child and adolescent analysis (following in Bion's footsteps); Chapter Four: What about the transference? Technical issues in the treatment of children who cannot symbolize