Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy
A paper with this title was present at the annual conference of the Association of Child Psychotherapists in March 2002.
The following version may be the same as that. The references are unfinished
This article reviews three volumes of the International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications - 1998, 1999, 2000 for a non-specialist readership:
vol 4 number 12, vol 5 number 2, volume 2 number 3, volume 3 numbers 2 and 3, vol 1 number 2;
also the Journal Child Psychotherapy - 1998, 1999, 2000):
vol 25 number 2, volume 24 number 2 (3 articles).
Themes are traced.
The review article covers the following two volumes:
International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications, Volume 6, No. 1, 2003
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 29, 1, April 2003
This commentary discusses an account of the psychoanalytic treatment of a manic depressive (bipolar) patient from a Lacanian perspective which raises many questions about the possibilities of treating psychotic patients psycho- analytically. It introduces Kleinian and Bionian perspectives on such treatment and the theory underpinning it. I have tried to indicate how a Lacanian and a Kleinian approach to this case can complement each other.... more
This paper describes a theoretical framework for elucidating developmental issues of young children presenting with marked autistic features where a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder is eventually rejected after intervention. Where others have implicated the role of trauma in the child in some cases of autism, this study highlights the potential contribution of traumatic features in the parents’ backgrounds aberrant development and the... more
This chapter describes a community-based service for under-fives established and evaluated within Sure Start in 2001-2. Comparing cases seen in the community service with cases seen in the main service, it highlights adaptations required of CAMHS in working creatively with voluntary agencies and so-called hard to reach populations. Four cases from diverse ethnic backgrounds illustrate the adaptations to families’ expectations and... more
‘Commentary by a consultant child psychotherapist and research fellow based at the Tavistock centre’ (Cathy Urwin) on a previously presented case.
It begins:
This is a moving account of work with a latency boy, Mohammed. In the previous week his therapist told him that his once-weekly therapy will end in the following July, two terms away. Mohammed's experience of this is immediate and total, eclipsing everything. As far as... more
Cathy Urwin reports on discussion in small groups following Ann Alvarez and Edna O’Shaughnessy’s papers on unintegration, disintergration and integration. Questions were raised about what is being ‘integrated’ in the infant. Of many topics covered, the greatest attention was given to the implications of the emphasis on the mother as a psychological object raised by O'Shaugnessy, an emphasis also implicit in other papers, and the impact... more
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