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Psychoanalysis with children : history, theory and practice Leonardo S. Rodriguez Published by Free Association Books (1999) |
Book description
This book critically examines the theoretical approaches and clinical practices of the psychoanalysts
that historically have prevailed in the field of psychoanalysis with children: Hermine
Hug-Hellmuth, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and her school, D.W.Winnicott, Jacques Lacan and Rosine and Robert
Lefort. The critique is organised around four fundamental questions:
1) The child as an autonomous analysand
2) The rationale for the psychoanalytic treatment of children
3) The child and the family
4) The ethics of psychoanalysis and the desire of the analyst who works with children.
It shows that psychoanalysis with children is an integral part of psychoanalysis, not a separate discipline: the child
enters an analysis not as a child but as a subject, an analysand in the full sense of the term, capable
of working in analysis as any grown-up, and frequently better than grown-ups at that. Hence the
title Psychoanalysis with children, rather than of children.
With more than twenty-five years of clinical experience with children and their parents, as well as research on psychoanalytic concepts
and practical applications, the author also presents his views on a number of issues of crucial
relevance for psychoanalytic theory and practice with children: - The process of acquisition of a
sexual orientation; - The handling of the transference and the end of the treatment - The treatment of
childhood psychosis and autism - The maternal superego - The contribution of psychoanalysis to the
history and modern conceptions of childhood.
About the Author
Dr. Leonardo Rodriguez is a senior lecturer in Psychological Medicine at Monash University.
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