Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781855757158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 152 str.

Michael Gunter

Opis

This book presents central aspects of the concept technique in psychoanalysis and discusses their significance for child analysis. Technique, in a more outward but nevertheless much-discussed sense, covers the basic set-up of the treatment, the setting and adaptations to the developmental stage of the child. In a more comprehensive sense, technique can be understood as the totality of the means used to enable a therapeutic relationship and to set a psychoanalytical process in motion. In view of current developments, the different standpoints taken up by Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in their discussions on the technique of child analysis - in particular as regards transference and the technique of interpretation - now seem dated and no longer appropriate to the current understanding of a dynamic interaction between analyst and child. A more complex concept of interpretation as the central instrument of psychoanalytic work can expand therapeutic possibilities in child analysis and can help establish a fresh understanding of the therapeutic process in its theory too.

Contributors:
Elisabeth Brainin, Antonino Ferro, Michael Gunter, Kai von Klitzing, Helga Kremp-Ottenheym, Maria Rhode, Angelika Staehle

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- Problems of technique in analysis of children and adolescents: transference—interpretation—play -- “Lillifee thinks she’s an arsehole.” Three levels of technique in child analysis: containment, transformation, interpretation -- Clinical and technical problems in child and adolescent analysis (following in Bion’s footsteps) -- What about the transference? Technical issues in the treatment of children who cannot symbolize -- Identity and bisexuality: thoughts on technique from the analysis of an adolescent girl -- Some thoughts on psychoanalytical technique in the treatment of adolescents: on the development of body image, body ego, and ego structures -- Rivals or partners? The role of parents in psychoanalytical work with children

O autorze

Gunter, Michael