Early development and its disturbances : clinical, conceptual and empirical research on ADHD and other psychopathologies and its epistemological reflections

311 Pages·2010·0.88 MB·English

by  Target

EARLY DEVELOPMENT
AND ITS DISTURBANCES
Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Peter Fonagy, Mary Target and Liz Allison (Series Editors)
Published and distributed by Karnac Books
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EARLY DEVELOPMENT
AND ITS DISTURBANCES
Clinical, Conceptual, and
Empirical Research on ADHD
and other Psychopathologies
and its Epistemological
Reflections
Edited by
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber,
Jorge Canestri and Mary Target
First published in 2010 by
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Copyright © 2010 by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Jorge Canestri
and Mary Target
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CONTENTS
PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xvii
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE
Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic
research on early development and ADHD 3
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Jorge Canestri and Mary Target
PART II: EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND ITS DISTURBANCES 51
CHAPTER TWO
Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where
psychoanalysis meets neuroscience 53
Peter Fonagy
v
vi CONTENTS
DISCUSSION OF PETER FONAGY’S PAPER
Developmental risks and their sequelae: Effects
on attachment and mentalization 77
Gerd Lehmkuhl
DISCUSSION OF PETER FONAGY’S PAPER
Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where
psychoanalysis meets neuroscience 87
Björn Salomonsson
CHAPTER THREE
Coping with children’s temperament 97
William B. Carey, M.D.
DISCUSSION OF WILLIAM B. CAREY’S PAPER
Coping with children’s temperament: Early
development and its disturbances 113
Jorge Canestri
CHAPTER FOUR
Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry
of so-called ADHD children 123
Heidi Staufenberg
DISCUSSION OF HEIDI STAUFENBERG’S PAPER
ADHD from the empirical and clinical perspectives 143
Annette Streeck-Fischer
CHAPTER FIVE
Further comments on Sophia’s mimetic autism,
with special reference to Bion’s theory of thinking 153
Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch de Ahumada
DISCUSSION OF JORGE L. AHUMADA
AND LUISA C. BUSCH DE AHUMADA’S PAPER 175
Angela Joyce
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER SIX
Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching
ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult 185
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
PART III: PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH: HOPES,
VIEWS, CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSION 207
CHAPTER SEVEN
Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research 209
Charles Hanly
CHAPTER EIGHT
Trauma or drive—drive and trauma: Revisited 219
Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
CHAPTER NINE
Pluralism in theory and in research—and what now?
A plea for connectionism 239
Anna Ursula Dreher
CHAPTER TEN
New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual
research have to offer? 267
Jorge L. Ahumada and Roberto Doria-Medina
INDEX 281

PREFACE
We are very pleased to present here one of the first psychoanalytic
books devoted to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
and other disturbances of early development. Some of the papers
of this volume were presented at the ninth Joseph Sandler Research
Conference which took place in Frankfurt for the first time. It was
organized by both Research Subcommittees of the International
Psychoanalytical Association (IPA): the Research Subcommittee for
Empirical Research (Chair: Peter Fonagy) and the Research Sub-
committee for Clinical, Conceptual, Historical and Epistemological
Research (Chair: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber).
The research conference carries the name of Joseph Sandler as he
is known as one of the most productive psychoanalytic researchers of
the last few decades. It is not so well-known that it was Joseph Sandler
who created the so-called “Conceptual Resarch” in Psychoanalysis,
and who organized a ‘concept group’ and developed the famous
‘Hampstead Index’, which was taught in the unique psychoanalytic
training courses at the Hampstead Clinic (now the Anna Freud Cen-
tre) in London. Since 1980 Joseph Sandler has also worked with a
‘concept group’ at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt, although
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