New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy

Findings from Qualitative Research

Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin, Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000008135
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Enfermedades y alergias

New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst, vivid in their description of the children and families they encountered. Their understanding of the "inner worlds" of patients and the clinical consulting room is clearly evidenced in their analysis of clinical presentations.

The chapters are the result of the psychoanalytic clinical and observational practices of their authors, allied to their use of rigorous qualitative research methods, in particular Grounded Theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). They describe developments of child psychoanalytic knowledge in several fields, including autism, psychotherapy with severely deprived children, and the study of early infancy. They demonstrate advances in child psychoanalytic theories and methods and the development of new forms of clinical service provision. Contested issues in psychoanalytic research are thoroughly evaluated, showing how it can be made more accountable and rigorous through the adaptation of established qualitative research methods to the study of unconscious mental phenomena.

New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy will be an essential text in the field of child psychoanalysis and will be highly useful in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training courses and for psychoanalytic researchers, as well as for practitioners.

INDEX

abduction, 20

concept of, 13

abductive reasoning, 32

absent breast (no breast), 40, 58

acoustic stimulations, in utero, 187

ACP: see Association of Child Psychotherapists

active attention, 295

Adamo, S. M. G., 294

addiction, 20

Adelson, E., 261

ADHD, 69, 71, 121–124, 145, 148, 272, 276, 280

ADHD medication, 124, 272, 276, 280

adhesive equation, 86, 89

adhesive identification, 86, 89

adhesive mechanisms, 116, 117

adolescent development, problems of, 2

adoption, late, 69

aesthetic appreciation, disturbance in, 55

aesthetic attunement, in mother–infant relationship, rupture in, 32

aesthetic conflict, 44, 45, 49, 50, 55

aesthetic disturbance, 55

aesthetic reciprocity, in mother–infant relationship, 32, 54

aesthetic “skin”, binding mother and infant, 55

affect-attunement, 40

affective attunement, meaning of term, 58

aggression, oral, 80

aggressor, identification with, 78, 202, 214, 261

Aitken, K., 90

Akhtar, K., 310

Akhtar, S., 168

alcohol exposure, foetal, 293

alienation, 108, 109, 305

alien transplant, 257

Allawi, A., 184

Allnutt, L., 22, 23, 63–83, 310

α-elements, 117

α-function, 250

deficit in, 116, 117

Alvarez, A., 57, 58, 301

analysis:

line-by-line, 19

qualitative, 9, 16, 21, 24, 56, 57, 156, 203

segment-by-segment, 19

analyst, anonymity and neutrality of, 271

Andersen, K. R., 220

Anderson, J., 14, 26, 228, 229, 296, 310

Anna Freud Centre, 70

annihilation anxieties, 260

anonymity, and neutrality of analyst, 271

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• Introduction
• I: Mainly theory and clinical method
• II: Mainly practice: contributions to service development
• APPENDIX A: COMPLETED DOCTORAL THESES IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY
• REFERENCES
• INDEX