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Cultivating a Culture of Concern Regarding Confidentiality in Writing About Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Denia G. Barrett, Jill M. Miller
Published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2024)
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Introduction to Honoring Anni Bergman The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Wendy Olesker, Inga Blom
This section honors Anni Bergman as a pioneer in theory, research, and clinical work across the lifespan. The papers were selected because they demonstrated deep understanding of the developmental ...
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Listening to Infants and Parents: Observe, Reflect, and Embrace the Mess The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Claudia M. Gold
This paper offers an overview of infant observation, parental reflective functioning, and the repair theory of human development as they apply to clinical work with families with young children. Us...
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Dyssynchrony, Surprise, and Multiple Perspectives The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Alexandra Harrison
The author, inspired by Anni Bergman’s work with an autistic child, describes a single play session in her work with a neurodiverse child. In this session, the first session following a missed appo...
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Developmental Trauma: An Introduction to the Section The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rona Knight, Jill M. Miller
This is an introduction to a collection of papers on developmental trauma which describe psychological and biological effects of exposure to extreme adversity that affects all of development from c...
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Custody Conflict as a Developmental Trauma The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Diana S. Rosenstein
While parental divorce can have a profound effect on the development of a child, the effect of a custody conflict following divorce can have an extreme, traumatic, and lifelong impact on a child. T...
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Antidote to Developmental Trauma: A Report on Findings from the “Adoption and Attachment Representations” Study The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Saul Hillman, Jeanne Kaniuk
This paper is a summary of findings from the “Adoption and Attachment Representations” study which was a collaboration between the Anna Freud Centre, Great Ormond Street, and Coram that focused on ...
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Growth in Adulthood: A Revised Psychoanalytic Framework for Adult Development The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Steven D. Axelrod
Psychic development over the course of adulthood has been largely neglected in the psychoanalytic literature over the past 30 years. This paper is an attempt to update a psychoanalytic understandin...
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A Psychoanalytic Retrospective: Thoughts on the Essence of a Happy and Fulfilled Life The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Calvin A. Colarusso
This paper describes the effect of more than 55 years of exposure to psychoanalytic theory and the practice of adult and child psychoanalysis on the author’s understanding of the human condition an...
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Introduction to Honoring Fred Pine The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Wendy Olesker
The contributions to Honoring Fred Pine represent several generations of Pine’s influence. All highlight developmental processes, which lie at the heart of Pine’s work. Slade integrates Pine’s work...
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Fred Pine: The Argument for a Developmental and Radically Open-Minded Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Arietta Slade
Fred Pine was a brilliant theoretician, an extraordinarily gifted clinician, an inspiring teacher, and a beautiful writer. He was also a master synthesizer who could hold multiple possibilities, mu...
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Honoring Fred Pine: A Study Evaluating the Role of Identification in Two Sisters Over 60 Years The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Wendy Olesker
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of identification processes, how they change and transform over the course of 60 years, to highlight the depth and complexity that has been added t...
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Psychoanalysis and the Workings of the Mind: An Essay in Honor of Fred Pine The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Morris Eagle
This paper is a contribution to a special section in honor of Fred Pine. After briefly describing my personal relationship with Fred, I discuss some issues in which our perspectives converge. These...
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Harold P. Blum
This paper is a tribute to the late Fred Pine, PhD. Relating to Dr. Pine’s original exploration of preoedipal and preverbal development, it discusses and amplifies Freud’s interpretation of Leonard...
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Re-Visiting Fred Pine The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Salman Akhtar
This brief communication revisits the contributions of the eminent psychoanalyst Fred Pine (1931–2022). From his many papers and book chapters and from his three solo-authored books, four ideas are...
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Resolving Rapprochement Challenges: The Process of Metabolizing Love-Fueling Development, Therapeutic Growth, Reparation, and Healing The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 William M. Singletary
Anni Bergman’s later work regarding rapprochement is briefly considered and then used as a foundation for this reconsideration of rapprochement’s place in development over the lifespan. Resolving r...
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Separation Anxiety: The Core of Attachment and Separation-Individuation The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Diana Diamond, John R. Keefe
This paper, written in honor of Anni Bergman, focuses on the concept of separation anxiety as it was conceptualized and developed in attachment theory by Bowlby and in separation-individuation theo...
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Attachment, Separation, and Multigenerational Loss in Young Children in the Foster Care System: A Mentalization-Based Approach to Treatment The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jill Bellinson, Ashley Golub, Tory O’Dwyer, Amy Pacifici, Danielle Sessler, Lisa Wolfe
Therapists who work with very young and deeply troubled children stand on the shoulders of Anni Bergman, expanding her vision to ongoing work. This paper will describe a program of dyadic treatment...
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Seeing, Knowing, and Finding Time: Attachment, Trauma, and Resilience in the Perinatal Period (And During a Pandemic) The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Inga Blom
Paying tribute to Anni Bergman requires a clinician to find the way to difficult clinical experiences that challenge one’s identity and demand creativity and humility. Anni was a keen observer of n...
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A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: Climate Anxiety in Our Youth – Introduction to the Section The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dennis Haseley, Claudia Lament
Dennis Haseley and Claudia Lament, the editors of this special section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child titled, A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: Climate Anxiety in Our Youth, summarize in th...
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Foreword to the Section – A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: Climate Anxiety in Our Youth The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben’s foreword to the section underscores the importance of formulating ways of thinking and addressing climate grief and anxiety. Communicating a sense of shared grief and anxiety over c...
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Silencing is the Real Crime: Youth and Elders Talk About Climate The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sally Weintrobe
Climate conversations held in the UK with youth, with elders, and then with the youth and elders together (an intergenerational group) are analyzed. Youth were consciously aware of, knew about, wer...
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Eco-Anxiety in Children and Young People – A Rational Response, Irreconcilable Despair, or Both? The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Caroline Hickman
This paper will present research and clinical material exploring how eco-anxiety can be felt and thought about by children and young people. It will then discuss the importance of understanding the...
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Climate Anxiety, Maturational Loss, and Adversarial Growth The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Panu Pihkala
Climate anxiety is intimately connected with climate grief. This article applies interdisciplinary research and especially theories of grief and bereavement to climate anxiety. The aim is to provid...
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“It Makes Me Sad When So Much of the Forest Burns Down!” Childhood and Youth in the Context of the Climate Crisis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kathrin Hörter
This article focuses on the perspective of children and young people growing up under the current threat of climate crisis. It shows that there is a multiplicity of ways in which children and young...
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“I Owe It to My Daughter”: How Parents Deal with the Climate Crisis. Psychodynamic Interviews with Parents Committed to Climate Protection The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ines Schelhas, Martina Gast
Based on four interviews with parents committed to climate protection, it is shown how they deal with the existential threat posed by the climate crisis and how it affects their relationships with ...
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Best Source of Hope: Care, Solidarity, Disobedience Reflected by the Climate Catastrophe The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Christine Bauriedl-Schmidt
The climate catastrophe is a humanitarian catastrophe and can be considered one of the most urgent challenges facing the continued survival of the human species. Starting with a psychodynamic conce...
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What Analysts Really Do: Psychoanalysis as a Nonlinear Dynamic System The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Stephen Seligman
Of all current psychologies, psychoanalysis is the most engaged with the complex and chaotic dimensions of human development and suffering – intricate psychic processes, fluxing mental and physical...
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Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory: Its Use in Understanding Psychological Development and the Process of Change in Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Rona Knight
Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory has been used by researchers in development for over 25 years. This paper demonstrates how this theory applies to psychodynamic development throughout the life cycl...
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How I Learned to Become Nonlinear: The Prequel The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Robert M. Galatzer-Levy
Late adolescent development can be described in terms of a nonlinear dynamic complex system including processes of emergence, that develop at the edge of chaos, and the shaping of development by th...
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Introduction to the Section: Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Rona Knight
Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory is discussed by three child, adolescent, and adult analysts who use this theory in their thinking about development from infancy through old age and as a way of und...
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Looking Through the Hourglass: The Importance of Our Words and Actions in Contemporary Child Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Sydney F. Anderson
This paper examines the relationship between our child analytic theories and what we say to the children with whom we work. This is a complicated relationship, one that involves the analyst’s consc...
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Brainy Kids Skating on Thin Ice: New Thoughts on Psyche-Soma and How Minds Over-Develop to Cope with Trauma The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Graham Music
This paper looks at how difficult early experiences may give rise to defenses in which patients rely excessively on their minds, or on bodily activity, having little faith in good reliable objects,...
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An Introduction to the Papers – Clinical Contributions on Gender The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Jill M. Miller, Denia Barrett
ABSTRACT The Co-Editors-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child introduce two clinical papers on Gender Dysphoria which include detailed clinical material from the analyses of four children born biologically female. They emphasize the importance of a psychoanalytic developmental theory as a foundation for analytic work with children and adolescents, and promote the idea of ongoing conversations
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Loss, Mourning, and the Developmental Process: Thoughts on Jane The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Rex McGehee
ABSTRACT This is the discussion of the analysis of an adolescent who had traumatically lost her mother as a school-age child. Using the case material presented by Cheryl Collins, the discussion will present the unconscious developmental dilemma posed by loss. Faced with the pain of loss, the process of development may deviate into a painful world of melancholia, nostalgia, and the repeated experiencing
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Teenism – The Prejudice Against Adolescents The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Jack Novick, Kerry Kelly Novick
ABSTRACT The authors build on Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s concept of “childism” to propose “teenism,” a prejudice against adolescents that has roots in generalization from pathology to normality in psychoanalytic theory, and has rippled into general cultural concepts of adolescence, to the detriment of clear diagnosis and creative generation of appropriate and effective techniques of adolescent treatment
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Childhood Bereavement: An Introduction to the Section The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Rona Knight
ABSTRACT This is an introduction to a collection of papers on childhood bereavement. The nature and content of the papers was prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the millions of children all over the world who have lost a parent from this contagion. This section examines the effects the pandemic had on children’s and families’ ability to mourn, the effects of losing a loved one and mourning on children
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Boys and Their Muscles: The Paternal Object in Muscle Dysmorphia The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Tom Wooldridge
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The End of Adolescence, Becoming an Adult: From Reverie to the Project The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Simruy Ikiz,Florian Houssier
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The Internal Worlds of Sexually Abused Looked-After Children The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 J. Mackin,S. Hillman,R. Cross,K. Anderson
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Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Therapy: Using Q-Methodology in Process Research The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Geoff Goodman
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Upon the 75th Anniversary of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Claudia Lament
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Addendum to the Introduction for “9/11 Twenty Years On: Fractured Identities; Fear of the Other; Forging a New Path for Our Children” The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Claudia Lament,Naghma Mimi Ismi
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Bringing Reflective Functioning to the Community: Aspects of psychotherapy process in the Group Attachment Based Intervention The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 M. Steele,H. Steele,A. Murphy
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Introduction to the Section: Widening the Scope of Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Research: Recent Applications and New Directions The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Sibel Halfon
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When the Analytic Field Becomes a Minefield: Analyzing in the Post-9/11 Era The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Aisha Abbasi
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Ralph Greenson’s Child Analytic Understanding and Technique: A Heuristic Examination The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Alan Sugarman
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An American Identity: The Shifting Sands of Democracy The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Monisha Nayar-Akhtar
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Training Life-Cycle Psychoanalysts: Integrated Psychoanalytic Education The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Jack Novick,Kerry Kelly Novick
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A Brief History of Child Psychoanalytic Training The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Pamela Meersand
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Parent Work in the Development and Teaching of Child Analysis The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Denia Barrett
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Psychoanalysis by the Numbers: What Bearing Does Frequency of Sessions Have on the Education and Training of Child Psychoanalytic Candidates? The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Michael Singer
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“The Times They are A-Changin”: Introducing the Section on Contemporary Child Psychoanalytic Education The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Alan Sugarman
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What about the Baby? Infancy and Parenting in the COVID-19 Pandemic The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Julie Ribaudo
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A Collective Strange Situation: COVID-19 and Children’s Developmental Lines The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Jordan Bate,Ilana Schulder
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Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Jordan Osserman,Hannah Wallerstein
This paper introduces the topic and unique format of the section that follows, on psychoanalytic work with transgender children. We first review the apparent impasse that characterizes our field regarding clinical work with gender diverse kids, as well as the reasons we pursued a live dialog to push thinking forward. Then, we outline the structure of the entire section, in which four contributors offer
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What about Children and Gender? The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Laurel Silber
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Gender Transitioning and Variance in Children and Adolescents: Some Temporal and Ethical Considerations The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Eve Watson
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Listening for Trans Childism in Discursive Concern The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Tobias Wiggins
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Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (IF 0.333) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Oren Gozlan,Jordan Osserman,Laurel Silber,Hannah Wallerstein,Eve Watson,Tobias Wiggins
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced