The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi Kennedy : From War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre (1940-1993)

ISBN-13: 9781855755239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 306 str.

Jill Miller; Carla Elliot-Neely

Opis

An accurate reflection of the work of Hansi Kennedy requires the placement of her writing in the context of a life lived in the relatively early days of the development of child psychoanalysis. As a witness to and participant in the work of Anna Freud, Kennedy's own perceptions of her early professional life include the pivotal period of the migration of psychoanalysis from Vienna to London. Her role in the Hampstead War Nurseries and later in the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic included much of significance in the evolution of psychoanalytic thought regarding children and their psychological development.

Kennedy's thinking was clear, disciplined and sophisticated, with a depth that demonstrated her understanding of development and of the mind of the child. Unburdened by concerns of what was and was not analysis, and whether child analysis was equivalent to adult analysis, she followed the children, first in the War Nurseries, then in the Hampstead Nursery School and the children she and others analyzed at the Hampstead Clinic, later the Anna Freud Centre.

With Kennedy's death in 2003 a chapter in child psychoanalysis closed. This book is an attempt to honor her memory and to share her ideas.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Making of a Child Analyst -- Memory -- Cover Memories in Formation -- Problems in Reconstruction in Child Analysis* -- The "Baby at the Breast" Experience: Memory or Fantasy? Some Further Thoughts on Reconstruction* -- Both Sides of the Barrier: Some Reflections on Childhood Fantasy* -- Insight -- The Role of Insight in Child Analysis: A Developmental Viewpoint* -- Conflict and Developmental Disturbances -- Pseudobackwardness in Children: Maternal Attitudes as an Etiological Factor* -- Some Reflections on Infantile Neurosis* -- Childhood Neurosis vs Developmental Deviations: Two Clinical Case Histories -- Different Types of Sado-Masochistic Behaviour in Children* -- Steps from Outer to Inner Conflict Viewed as Superego Precursors* -- The Developmental Roots of Self-Injury and Response to Pain in a 4-Year-Old Boy* -- For or Against Child Placement: A Clinical Illustration* -- Growing up with a Handicapped Sibling* -- Trauma in Childhood: Signs and Sequelae as Seen in the Analysis of an Adolescent* -- Reflections on the Aim of Child Analysis* -- Analytic Technique with Pre-Latency Children -- The Technique of Psychoanalysis with the Pre-Latency Child* -- Psychoanalytic Work with the Under-fives: Forty Years' Experience

O autorze

M. Miller, Jill