Recently added articles from Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy:
Developing the Intersubjective Playground in the Treatment of Childhood Asperger's Syndrome
Oct 01, 2006; ... Current theories of therapeutic action place the nexus of change in the intersubjective experiences of the therapeutic dyad. Where does this leave us when a child patient's social skills are so limited as to impede an experience of "usness"? How do we work at repairing early ruptures in relating ...
The Re-emergence of Separation Fears in the College Bound Adolescent: From Disruption to Resolution
Oct 01, 2006; ... The unique circumstances of leaving home for college place specific pressures on adolescents and their families. Disruptions in behavior and mood that occur in relation to the adolescent's leaving home for college represent a form of separation anxiety associated with the transition from middle ...
A Child with ADHD: Convergences of Rorschach Data and Case Material
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Rorschach protocol and psychotherapy of a 7 year-old boy with severe ADHD symptomatology were studied in conjunction with one another. Both arenas place a premium on affect tolerance and expression. On the Rorschach, he displayed a constricted record on achromatic cards and a chaotic record ...
On the Convergence of Folk Belief and Psychopathology: A Demon as Introject in a 12 Year Old African American Boy
Oct 01, 2006; ... FOLK BELIEFS OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM A VARIETY OF cultures are often important to assess and understand during psychoanalytic psychotherapy. They place a responsibility upon the therapist to be open to a different way of organizing experience without labeling it either superstition ...
Creative Use of Self and the Therapeutic Relationship in Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy
Oct 01, 2006; ... I HAVE LONG BEEN INTERESTED IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN BOTH THE arts and in my work. While we can debate whether psychoanalysis is science or art, or some combination of both, few would deny the relevance of the creative process to both individual development and therapeutic process. I often ...
An Exploratory Study of Premature Termination in Child Analysis
Oct 01, 2006; ... Dropping out of psychotherapy among children and adolescent is a significant problem affecting 40-60 percent of the cases receiving outpatient care. Many factors have been investigated as possibly contributing to premature termination, but most of the findings were found to be inconsistent and ...
Preface
Jul 01, 2006; ... THIS JOURNAL IS A RECORD OF A CONFERENCE HELD BY THE Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research on October 15 and 16, 2005.1 The aim of the conference was to further the dialogue between Contemporary British Kleinians and Modern Freudians that has taken place through periodic visits ...
Introduction: Central Concepts of the Freud-Klein Debates
Jul 01, 2006; ... I'VE BEEN ASKED TO SPEAK FOR 15 MINUTES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF Freudian and Kleinian thought, or at least the history of their differences, to set the stage for what is to come over this weekend. I'll begin by discussing the differences that emerged between the Viennese Freudians and followers of ...
Panel I: Contemporary Views on Stages Versus Positions
Jul 01, 2006; ... BEFORE THE CONFERENCE, THE PARTICIPANTS WERE SENT FOUR questions to which they were asked to respond. Question One: The concept of positions has been central to Kleinian thought since originally theorized by Klein. Positions does not necessarily, although they well might, suggest a ...
Panel II: The Oedipus Complex, the Primal Scene, and the Superego
Jul 01, 2006; ... Question 1: The idea of the Oedipus complex is central to both Freudians and Kleinians. Yet it is as if they are talking about quite different concepts with different stages of development implicated. These different theories also place the processing or representation of the primal scene along ...
Panel III: The Role of Attachment and Love Versus Envy and Destructiveness in the First Year of Life: Affects, Impulses, and Defenses
Jul 01, 2006; ... Question Three: We have asked the panel to discuss several issues related to affect and defense. What are the crucial anxieties of early life? How crucial is destruction or aggressiveness in these early months? What role does anxieties over attachment and separation play? Do economic ...
Panel IV: Introduction to Issues Related to Treatment
Jul 01, 2006; ... Question Four: How does developmental theory influences practice? Panelists will hear a case presentation. We have asked them to address what developmental concepts they consider crucial to their work as clinicians, examples might include: projective identification, positions, transference, and ...
Clinical Case Presentation
Jul 01, 2006; ... WHEN DEREK, AGED 30, INITIALLY TELEPHONED ME HE SAID HE had wanted to call me for several months but had been too terrified. He was cheating on his girlfriend Kim, with whom he began a romance shortly into his two-year marriage to Miriam. He feared really seeing how "messed up" he was, he said, ...
Final Questions
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE FINAL HOUR OF THE CONFERENCE WAS A QUESTION AND answer period for all of the four panelists, Drs. Britton, Chused, Ellman, and Likierman and the presenter of the case, Dr. Haft. The panelists request that a group of questions be read, rather than responding to them individually, such that ...
Acknowledgments
Jul 01, 2006; ... WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC Training and Research for their fostering of an environment of open-mindedness and theoretical inclusiveness, all while maintaining its solid identity as a Freudian institute. It is just such a combination of intellectual flexibility and ...