Table Of ContentTHE PSYCHOANALYST AND
THE CHILD
The Psychoanalyst and the Child explores the unique nature of psycho-
analytic work with children. This book is based on more than 30 years of
practice and reflection within the framework of the Alfred Binet Centre
in Paris, France. The very great diversity of situations encountered at
the Centre brings the issue of therapeutic indications to the forefront.
M ichel Ody focuses on the diversification of fifteen clinical situations
and their theorization, ranging from basic consultation to psychoanalytic
treatment. With this framework as his starting-point, he looks at the
common features between the therapeutic consultation – a consultation
that becomes therapeutic – and the analytic treatment, as well as what
differentiates them. This implies examining, at the technical level, the
different forms of interventions and interpretations presented as well as
their metapsychological articulation. Ody draws on decades of clinical
expertise to set out not just the basic considerations and problems typically
encountered in work with this patient group, but clear guidelines for
methodology and technique.
P sychoanalysis can be an intellectual process, dependent on the
ability of the patient to express themselves verbally, which can make
working clinically with children challenging. The Psychoanalyst and the
Child seeks to help psychoanalysts through the most challenging of
clinical treatments with this patient group.
Michel Ody is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and honorary training
member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He was a member
of the Management Committee of the SPP Training Institute for
twelve years and Chair of the SPP Scientific and Technical Committee
for five years. Since 1975 he has gradually taken responsibility for a
multidisciplinary team at the Alfred Binet Centre. He is the author of
two books and more than 100 psychoanalytic articles in French and was
awarded the Maurice Bouvet Prize in 1988.
PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES
IPA Publications Committee
Gennaro Saragnano (Rome), Chair and General Editor; Leticia Glocer Fiorini
(Buenos Aires), Consultant; Samuel Arbiser (Buenos Aires); Paulo Cesar Sandler
(São Paulo); Christian Seulin (Lyon); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal); Gail S. Reed
(New York); Catalina Bronstein (London); Rhoda Bawdekar (London), Ex-officio
as Publications Officer; Paul Crake (London): IPA Executive Director (ex-officio)
Recent titles in the Series include
The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine–Maternal
Origins of Responsibility for the Other
Viviane Chetrit-Vatine
Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis —
The Three-Level Model
edited by Marina Altmann de Litvan
Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches
edited by Cyril Levitt
Freud and Culture
Eric Smadja
Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson
edited by Nellie L. Thompson
Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations
edited by Christophe Dejours
Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma ,
and Depression
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
The Future of Psychoanalysis: The Debate about the Training Analyst System
edited by Peter Zagermann
The Analytical Process: Journeys and Pathways
Thierry Bokanowski
Psychotic Organisation of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys
Antonio Perez-Sanchez
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film
edited by Andrea Sabbadini, Ilany Kogan and Paola Golinelli
Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions
and the Present Moment
Lawrence J. Brown
The Psychoanalyst and the Child: From the consultation to psychoanalytic
treatment
Michel Ody
Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine
Symphony
Marion Oliner
THE PSYCHOANALYST
AND THE CHILD
From the Consultation to
Psychoanalytic Treatment
Michel Ody
First published 2019
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This book is a translation of a work previously published in French by Éditions In
Press as Le psychanalyste et l’enfant: De la consultation à la cure psychanalytique (2013).
Translated by Andrew Weller.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ody, Michel, author.
Title: The psychoanalyst and the child : from the consultation to psychoanalytic
treatment / Michel Ody.
Other titles: Psychanalyste et l’enfant. English
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: International
Psychoanalytical Association ideas and applications book series | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018032460 (print) | LCCN 2018034952 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780429424038 (Master) | ISBN 9780429753794 (Web PDF) |
ISBN 9780429753787 (ePub) | ISBN 9780429753770 (Mobipocket/Kindle) |
ISBN 9781138389250 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138389267 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780429424038 (ebk)
Subjects: | MESH: Psychoanalytic Therapy–methods | Child | Child
Psychiatry–methods | Psychotherapeutic Processes
Classification: LCC RJ504.2 (ebook) | LCC RJ504.2 (print) | NLM WS 350.5 |
DDC 618.92/8917—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032460
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD by Gabriela Legorreta xi
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
PART I
THE THERAPEUTIC CONSULTATION
CHAPTER ONE
Psychoanalytic work with the child: basic reflections 15
CHAPTER TWO
Clinical experience of the movements of psychic life 41
PART II
METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER THREE
Movements and settings of the therapeutic space 91
v
vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Work of interpretation 133
CHAPTER FIVE
Concerning insight, the limits of “analysing everything”, 171
and the end of the analysis
Conclusion 187
ADDENDUM 211
REFERENCES 213
INDEX 221
For Maïté
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my thanks to Elsa Schmid-Kitsikis and Rémy
Puyuelo for the support, help and advice they gave me as I was writing
this book, and to all those with whom I have worked at the Alfred Binet
Centre for the last thirty years or so.
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