Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis - War, Pandemic and Climate Change

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by young people worldwide.

List of contents

Foreword
Kristin Fiorella
Part One: War
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter One: War, Trauma and the Survival of Hope in Palestine: What We Learn from its Children
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger
Chapter Two: Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Universe to Children Affected by Violence
Martha Bragin
Chapter Three: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Evacuated Parents and Children during the First Weeks of the October 7th War
Ruth Weinberg
Chapter Four: Minds in the Line of Fire: Mothers During the War
Kateryna Abashkina, Kateryna Alpatova,Tetiana Stasiuk, Anastasya Svinarchuk, and Emanuela Quagliata
Chapter Five: Children in a World at War
Monica Cardenal
Chapter Six: There's a Hole in Daddy's Arm: Making Contact with Opiod Epidemic in Clinical Practice
Ben Fife
Chapter Seven: Forbidden Games: Anti War Manifesto:
Ana Belchior Melicias
Chapter Eight: Totalitarian Regimes and a Child's Mind: Cria Cuervos
Mary Brady, Ana Belchior Melicias, Virginia Unger, and Adriana Prengler
Chapter Nine: The Need for Truth in Healthy Psychic Development
Antonia Grimalt
Part Two: Pandemic
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Ten: Other Lullabies: Attacks on Blackness, Confusion of Tongues, and the Loss of Play
Carlos Padron
Chapter Eleven: Caring for Cryptnids: Welcoming the More-Than-Human into Psychoanalytic Treatment
Kathleen Del Mar Miller
Chapter Twelve: Adolescents in the Line of Fire: Between Chaos, Ideals, and Psychic Reality Today in the Adolescent Subjectivation Process
Fernando Gomez
Chapter Thirteen: S.O.S. Brasil
Alicia Beatriz Dorado de Lisondo
Chapter Fourteen: On Psychic Envelopes and Spaces for Young Children during the Pandemic
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
Part Three: Climate Change
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Fifteen: Eco-Anxiety in Children and Young People- A Rational Response, Irreconciliable Despair, or Both?
Caroline Hickman
Chapter Sixteen:The Climate Crisis and the "Unnatural" Body: Onto-epistemological Possibilities and Threats of the Genders of Children and Adolescents
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Seventeen: Climate Anxiety, Maturational Loss, and Adversarial Growth
Panu Pihkala
Chapter Eighteen: Dwelling and the Climate Crisis: A Developmental Perspective and its Implications
Ryan Lamothe
Chapter Nineteen: The Climate Crisis: The Impact of Fragile Identificatory Models on Adolescence
Christine Franckx

About the author

Kristin Fiorella, Psy.D., MFT, MFA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculties of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Fiorella
• Assisted by: Kristin Fiorella (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.10.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032859781
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285978-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis