Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy

List of contents

Preface -- Foreword -- Theoretical background -- An interpersonal view of the infant -- Psychoanalysis and developmental therapy -- Clinical work with children -- "Tom": undoing an early developmental hitch -- "Paul": the struggle to restore a development gone awry -- "Martha": establishing analytic treatment with a 4-year-old girl -- "Donald": the treatment of a 5-year-old boy with experience of early loss -- "Michael": a journey from the physical to the mental realm -- Clinical and educational interventions in work with children -- "Maya": the interplay of nursery education and analysis in restoring a child to the path of normal development -- "Leo": multiple interventions in the case of a very disturbed young boy with autistic features

About the author

Hurry, Anne

Summary

This book exemplifies a special kind of application of psychoanalysis. It shows how the child uses the analyst both as a transference object and as a new developmental object, illustrating the mutually enabling and inextricably interwoven nature of developmental work and interpretation of conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Hurry, Anne-Marie Sandler, Marie Zaphiriou Woods
• Assisted by: Anne Hurry (Editor), Hurry Anne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367326173
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32617-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Psychoanalytic Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Child and Adolescent Studies