Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'

Karen Baker, Jerrold Brandell, Karen Baker, Jerrold Brandell, Karen E. Baker, Jerrold R. Brandell

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781317980650
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Salud mental en psicología

Since Freud's publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with them. Contemporary psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic social work clinicians often find themselves responding to misapprehensions and distortions about psychoanalytic theory and treatment created or promoted in popular culture. Furthermore, clinical practices are subject to the disruptive influence of managed mental health care and, with the ascendancy of biological psychiatry, an increasing reliance on psychoactive drugs in the treatment of children, often in the absence of sound research support.

In this book, expert international contributors explore developmental, theoretical and clinical themes in work with children. Focusing on diverse populations and varied treatment settings, they present compelling clinical cases and research that, collectively, demonstrate the efficacy and relevance of psychoanalytic ideas in the context of play therapy.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Social Work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• 1. Introduction
• 2. In and Out of the Displacement: The Roles of Interpretation and Play in Work with Children
• 3. “My Brakes Are Broken”: Case Presentation of a Latency-Age Boy Struggling with Affect Regulation
• 4. For As Long As It Takes: Relationship-Based Play Therapy for Children in Foster Care
• 5. The Permanency Plan Game Show: An Intersubjective Case Study of a Foster Care Child and Her Caregivers
• 6. Expanding the Playroom: School-Based Treatment for Maltreated Children
• 7. Preparing the Child Facing Surgery: The Use of Play Therapy
• 8. The Role of Play in the Psychotherapy of a Child Suffering from Cancer
• 9. Attachment Theory: History, Research, and Practice
• Index