Child Analysis Today

131 Pages·2004·3.963 MB·English

by  Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra

Child A n a l y s is Today

Edited by Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra
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CHILD ANALYSIS TODAY
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CHILD ANALYSIS TODAY

Editor
Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra
Series Editors
Inge Wise and Paul Williams
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Introduction 1
Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra
CHAPTER ONE
Developments in technique in Kleinian child psychoanalysis 15
Robin Anderson
CHAPTER TWO
Child analysis: when? 29
A. H. Brafman
CHAPTER THREE
Anna Freud—child analyst 45
Rose Edgcumbe
V
VI CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Being Frankenstein: a youth's solution to psychosis 59
Edna O'Shaughnessy
CHAPTER FIVE
How come your house never falls down? 73
Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra
CHAPTER SIX
On interpretation and holding 95
Anne-Marie Sandler
INDEX 113
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to express my gratitude to all those who have contributed
with their advice, ideas, comments, suggestions, and support to
Child Analysis Today: Inge Wise, Riccardo Steiner, Felicity EHrmeik,
Alicia Etchegoyen, Judith Perle, Joan Schachter, Audrey Gavshon,
Cecilia Walters, Pauline Cohen and Leena Hakkinen.
Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra
Editor
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CONTRIBUTORS
Dr Robin Anderson is a training analyst in adult, child, and adoles­
cent analysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he was also
chairman of the Child and Adolescent Analysis Committee. He is a
consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, and since 1991 has
been consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic. Until 2000, he
was the head of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic.
He retired from this post in 2003, but still continues to teach both
trainees and staff there. He now concentrates on teaching and
working in his private psychoanalytic practice. He has published
papers on child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysis and psycho­
therapy, and contributed numerous chapters to books. He has
edited two books: Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion and, with Anna
Dartington, Facing It Out: Clinical Perspectives on Adolescent Distur­
bance. He is particularly interested in early object relationships and
the way in which they manifest themselves in later life, especially
during adolescence. He has applied this in working with suicidal
young people. His interest also extends to the way in which psy­
choanalytic work with children contributes to adult analytic tech­
nique.
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