Child Analysis Today

by Luis Rodriguez De La Sierra (Editor)

Overview

Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most significant figures in the field: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. As well as providing an insight into these differences, this volume from the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series also portrays the state of child analysis today, whereby we need to reconcile and combine these differences to reveal a common ground from where we can move forward. This is represented by the sheer diversity of the perspectives in this volume, as they in turn show how they can influence the field of child analysis today.' This book represents an attempt to portray the state of child psychoanalysis in the British Psychoanalytical Society today. It offers a variety of clinical and theoretical perspectives, and attempts to demonstrate how they influence the world of child analysis in this country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753259
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2004
Series:	The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luis Rodriguez de la Sierra is a Training Analyst and Child Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and works at the Department of Psychotherapy at University College London, the Anna Freud Clinic, the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis and in private practice. He has previously published papers on child analysis and drug addiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction — Developments in technique in Kleinian child psychoanalysis — Child analysis: when? — Anna Freud—child analyst — Being Frankenstein: a youth's solution to psychosis — How come your house never falls down? — On interpretation and holding