Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Diverse psychoanalytic ideas and individual styles are represented, challenging the historical allegiance in analytic child therapy to particular, and so often singular, schools of thought. Each of the distinguished contributors offers a conceptually grounded and clinically rich account of child development, addressing topics such as refl ective functioning, the role of play, dreaming, trauma and neglect, the development of recognition and mutuality, autism, adoption, and non- binary conceptions of gender. Extended clinical vignettes offer the reader clear vision into the convergence of theory and practice, demonstrating the potential of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to move child development forward. This book will appeal to all practicing mental health professionals.

Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, & Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and maintains a psychotherapy and consultation practice with children, adolescents, and adults in New York City. Andrew Harlem, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, an instructor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and faculty member at Access Institute for Psychological Services. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is past president of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and maintains a psychotherapy and consultation practice in San Francisco, California.

Introduction Andrew Harlem, Ph.D. Section I: Infant Research, Reflective Functioning and Mutual Regulation Chapter 1 Being-With: From infancy through philosophy to psychoanalysis Bruce Reis, Ph.D. Chapter 2 How We Know How to Be with Others: Infant-parent psychotherapy for early indicators of autism spectrum disorders Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D. Chapter 3 Trauma and Attachment: Clinical techniques to enhance reflective functioning Miriam Steele, Ph.D. Chapter 4 Neglect and its Neglect: Developmental science, psychoanalytic thinking and countertransference vitality Graham Music, Ph.D. Section II: Play, Dreaming, and the Growth of Mind Chapter 5 The Universe of Play: Technique in contemporary child therapy Peter Carnochan, Ph.D. Chapter 6 The Analyst as Dreaming Filmmaker Antonio Ferro & Elena Molinari Chapter 7 The Emergence of the Analyst's Childhood: Embodied history and its influence on the dyadic system Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D. Chapter 8 Theory of Mind and Therapeutic Action: A Contemporary Freudian Integration Neal Vorus, Ph.D. Section III: Mutuality and the Self in Relation Chapter 9 A Child Therapist at Work: Playing, talking, and the therapist's inner dialogue Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D. Chapter 10 The Origins of Relationality: The role of pre- and perinatal experience in the structure, psychopathology and treatment of the relational self Brent Willock, Ph.D. Chapter 11 "Is This Chair Alive?": Interpersonal relating and the beginnings of the self Seth Aronson, Psy.D. Section IV: Re-Imagining Gender Chapter 12 What's Your Gender? Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. Chapter 13 Holding Futurity in Mind: Therapeutic action in the relational treatment of a transgender girl Avgi Saketopoulou, Ph.D.