Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children

Learning to Surf
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-81243-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis

In Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf, Mary T. Brady expertly guides the reader through the challenging and vital process of working with young analysands.

Brady likens the experience to ‘learning to surf.’ While finding Bion’s metaphor that the analyst must be able to ‘think under fire’ useful, she suggests ‘learning to surf’ is more apt in psychoanalysis with adolescents and children. Drawing on this metaphor throughout the volume, she describes how the adolescent can be potentially upended, injured or even killed by emotional waves too tumultuous to manage. Surfing also evokes the often uneasy but sometimes thrilling balances of adolescence. Using clinical vignettes from her extensive experience in the field, Brady explores how to work with young people experiencing issues such as eating disorders, gender challenges, parental substance abuse and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Bionian Field Theory, as well as the work of Donald Winnicott, she explores how analysts can surf with the adolescent or child in navigating the ebb and flow of psychic life and development.

This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, including psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counselors, who treat children and adolescents.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, Mary T

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Foreword Foreword Permissions Introduction: Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf 1. Learning to surf: Analyzing adolescents 2. “Daddy’s Head is Broken”: The Treatment of Children of Severe Alcoholics 3. The Oblivious Object 4. Adolescent Feminine Subjectivities Elaborated via Transitory Objects in the Analytic Field 5. Fear of Eating Up the Mother: An Adolescent Phantasy in Some Anorectics 6. To Know or Not to Know: An Application of Bion’s K and –K to Child Treatment 7. Considerations Regarding the Establishment of Play Space: Shifting Psychic States in a 5-Year-Old 8. Totalitarian Regimes and a Child’s Mind: Cria Cuervos 9. Adolescent Psychic Isolation and Bodily-Based Symptoms in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Über Autor(innen)

Mary T. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco, USA. On the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, she is a recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Roughton Award for her writing. She is the editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022) and the author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015). She is Co-Chair for the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the IPA and has co-led a Psychoanalysis and Film group for a decade.