The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task

Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families

Nilde Parada Franch, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Mónica Cardenal, Majlis Winberg Salomonsson, Nilde Parada Franch, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Mónica Cardenal, Majlis Winberg Salomonsson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000646719
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood.

This book, led by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), commits to shedding light on new developments in theory and practice in this area.

Each chapter offers an expression of current thinking and clinical work with child and adolescent patients, as well as with their parents, families, and community. The complex contributions by brilliant and erudite scholars offer a fresh take on the existing body of thought on infancy and childhood in psychoanalysis that will challenge and enlighten readers of all backgrounds. Within these perspectives, the development of internal and external bonds is the focus, as well as a consideration of how analysts work in their time with young patients at these key moments of the life cycle.

With their expertise in childhood, the contributors share complex views on the link between analysis with young children and psychoanalysis with adults, making it an essential read for child and adolescent psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Foreword by the Series Editor
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. On Playfulness
• 2. The Shifting Boundaries of Intimate Psychic Spaces In Childhood and Adolescence
• 3. The Oblivious Object
• 4. Introjective Processes: Work on the Infantile as a Mental State
• 5. The Interpretation of Oedipal Configurations in Child Analysis
• 6. Secrecy in the Infantile…
• 7. The Parental Unconscious: Trauma, Crypts, Fantasies and Failures
• 8. Remembering and Working Through the Trauma of Paternal Loss and Maternal Postpartum Depression: The Case of Sam
• 9. Notes on Breakdown in Child Development: Misconceptions and Disorientations
• 10. Repairing a Fractured Child and Family Mind
• 11. Cyberspace as Refuge or Prison: An Exploration of Analytic Communication
• 12. New Voices in Child Analysis: Autistic functioning and psychic pain? Building up possible links
• 13. The Developmental Impact of Very Early Childhood on Treatment and Technique
• 14. Video Child Psychotherapy During Lockdown for Better or for Worse
• 15. Working with Children and their Parents in Pandemic Times
• Index