Dialogues with Children and Adolescents A Psychoanalytic Guide [Paperback]

Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them. Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide shows how these aims can beachieved for the most effective clinical outcome with children from infancy up to late adolescence.

Bj?rn Salomonssonand Majlis Winberg Salomonssondraw on extensive case material which reveals the essence of communication between child and therapist. They enfranchise the patient of all ages as an equal participant in the therapeutic relationship. Presented in letter form the cases contain no professional terms. Only the final chapter contains theoretical commentaries applicable to each case. These terms and theories help to explain a childs behaviour, the analysts technique and the background to the disorder.

This is new creative development in child therapy and analysis which is written in a very accessible style. Dialogues with Children and Adolescentswill be essential reading for beginners in psychoanalytic work with children and will cast a fresh light on such work for more experienced clinicians. It will also appeal to the non-professional lay reader.

INTRODUCTION

1  THE LAND OF O
2  THE HOLE IN THE ESCALATOR
3  WHY ARE THEY DOING LIKE THAT? 
4  RAGING WITH LOVE
5 - HERE COMES PIPPI LUNDSTR?M
6  YOULL BE DEADER THAN DEAD
7  WE DONT LOOK INTO EACH OTHERS EYES
8  MY HEAD IS A MESS
9  RESTLESS AND RUTHLESS  OR JUST ROOTLESS? 
10  LETTER FROM THE VOLCANO
11  THAT TINGLING FEELING
12  NO CONNECTION
13  THE FIRST TIME THAT I SAW YOU
14  THE LAST TIME THAT I SAW YOU
15  COMMENTARIES TO CHAPTERS 2-12

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