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Dual citizenship and wicked problems: a leadership stance in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Andrew Dawson, Lynda Ellis
This paper raises and addresses issues to do with leadership and child psychotherapy, beginning with a report on a systematic review of papers about leadership in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy...
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Correction Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Country house poetry of the English Civil war: a metaphorical exploration of contemporary debates in UK child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy research and an update on TIGA-CUB Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Elizabeth Edginton
Using the country house poetry of the English Civil War as a metaphor, this article traces some of the key debates in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy (CAPPT) research over the las...
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Fear and loathing, love and othering: the legacy of early Oedipal struggles as manifest in racialised dynamics in the consulting room Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Alexandra de Rementeria
This paper takes as its premise the idea that transferential phenomena emerge out of the endless interactions between the wider social context, including myriad social injustices, and the inter and...
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A meeting of aliens: an exploration in trying to increase moments of perceptual overlap with a neuro-diverse client Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Carolyn Hart
This paper explores the challenge of establishing a meaningful connection between a neurotypical therapist and a neurodiverse patient who inhabit different Umwelts, that is, perceptual worlds.1 It ...
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Infantile perspectives on the replacement child Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mary Short
This paper tells the story of the work of a parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapist with an infant girl and her mother, from the age of four to 19 months old. It became clear, very quickly, th...
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Psychoanalytic approaches to forgiveness and mental health Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Michael Rustin
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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This is who I am: psychotherapy with gender questioning and transgender adolescents Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Anna Cohen
The paper draws on fictionalised composite case histories to explore themes in psychotherapeutic work with gender questioning and transgender young people. Gender and transgender are examined from ...
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Time to think: the inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock’s gender service for children Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jennifer Browner
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Supervision in a changing world: reflections from child psychotherapy Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Research digest: the evidence-base for psychodynamic interventions with children under five years of age and their caregivers Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Being able to see your child: the journey of a single mother in a MBT group for high-risk parents, through her representations of the child Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Maria Grazia Sara Sicilia, Saul Hillman
This paper explores the parental representations of the child, through the case study of one participant in a mentalization-based intervention for parents of young children aged one – two years old...
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Response to the paper by Michael Garcia (2023) ‘The psychoanalytic frame and the consent situation: the child patient’s position in the publication dilemma’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Gillian Sloan Donachy
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Editorial Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Maria Papadima
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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Climate change: the psychological impact of climate anxiety and trauma: understanding from the psychotherapeutic encounter Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Peter Slater
Anthropogenic climate change has been a crisis that human beings have spent decades being in denial of, at great cost to nature, biodiversity and ultimately to ourselves. Facing the reality of this...
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Response to Maria Papadima’s commentary on MacKean et al. (2023) and Midgley et al.’s (2021) papers about an internet-based psychodynamic treatment Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Nick Midgley, Jakob Mechler, Karin Lindqvist
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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Commentary on the paper by Molly MacKean et al.: ‘I’ve started my journey to coping better’: exploring adolescents’ journeys through an internet-based psychodynamic therapy (I-PDT) for depression, Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 49 (3) Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Maria Papadima
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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The functioning of a work discussion group as a peer group in preschool education: a reflective account Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Theofania Antypa, Lida Anagnostaki
In the field of education, work discussion groups focus on teachers’ emotional experience with their students and offer a safe environment in which professionals can freely interact and explore the...
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Research digest: therapeutic interventions for young people on the autism spectrum Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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Becoming a researcher: psychotherapists’ experience of starting a professional doctorate Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Sue Kegerreis, Deborah L. S. Wright, Sarah Hall, Medina Horne, Jane Langley, James Norris, Elaine Quaile, Rinat Shemesh
This paper explores the journey taken by experienced psychotherapists as they embark on doctoral research, highlighting the adjustments involved in moving from being a clinician to becoming a resea...
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The contribution of Meltzer’s concept of ‘geographical confusion’ to understanding development and the analytic process Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Ruth Weinberg
The concept of geographical confusion is very useful in understanding the child and the adolescent. In addition, the clinical examples presented, taken from two different developmental phases in a ...
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Psychosis as a sacrifice of sovereignty Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Yaakov Roitman
In this work, I explore psychosis as an intersubjective state. Positing the importance of an early traumatic loss of a significant figure, I describe a situation in which a caregiver is not able to...
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The ‘wave-particle’ child: reconnecting the disconnect in the concept of latency Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Celine Maroudas, Hadas Wiseman, Judith Harel
The aim of this paper is to re-examine psychodynamic understanding of middle childhood towards a conceptual reformulation of this critical developmental stage. We believe such a reformulation is ne...
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Editorial Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Thinking about a playroom1 Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Betty Joseph
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how thinking about a playroom involves our thinking about the setting in psychoanalytical work with children in general the physical as well as the human aspects and how this encourages us to rethink some of the basic aims in psychoanalytic work. The paper describes the importance of the setting being such as to help the therapist to have the freedom to think and to feel
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Response to the paper by Betty Joseph: ‘Thinking about a playroom’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 May Nilsson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Response to the paper by Betty Joseph: ‘Thinking about a playroom’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Lenka Očková, Martin Galbavý, Karel Flaška, Peter Pöthe
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Response to the paper by Betty Joseph: ‘Thinking about a playroom’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Diana Radeva
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Finding a way to the child – selected clinical papers 1983–2021 Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Francesca Calvocoressi
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Affect and emotion: a brief psychoanalytic tour Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Alexandra de Rementeria
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Research digest: looking beyond the IMPACT study to further our understanding of adolescent depression and its treatment Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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The therapy process with depressed adolescents who drop out of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: an empirical case study Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Jasmin Meier, Nick Midgley, Sally O’Keeffe, Lisa Thackeray
Psychotherapy dropout is a common phenomenon in youth mental health, often due to dissatisfaction with treatment. However, little is known about the therapeutic processes that precede dropout due t...
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Supporting early parenthood of hospitalised women with severe pregnancy problems and their partners: rationale, principles and exploration of a psychotherapeutic programme Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Fernanda Sampaio de Carvalho, Nicole Vliegen, Irwin Reiss, Monique van Dijk
ABSTRACT This paper describes the rationale and treatment principles of an in-hospital psychotherapeutic programme for pregnant women with pre-eclampsia or HELLP syndrome, and their partners. This psychotherapeutic programme focuses on making improvements in the experience of early parenthood, through improving reflective capacity under stress, emotional availability, bonding with the infant, and supporting
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The psychoanalytic frame and the consent situation: the child patient’s position in the publication dilemma Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Michael Garcia
ABSTRACT The author explores the current dilemma regarding consent standards for the publication of child patient clinical material, and the psychic impact on the child when seeking permission to publish. It is proposed that a psychoanalytic view creates an additional dimension to the more universal ethic of ‘do no harm’, requiring clinicians to consider the unconscious experience of the patient as
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Reflective group supervision: psychotherapists and child health centre nurses in collaboration Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Björn Salomonsson
ABSTRACT Postpartum depression affects every sixth mother, and emotional distress in infants is also common. The need for parent-infant consultations and psychotherapies probably greatly exceeds the number of families who in fact receive qualified help. Nurses at child health centres are the first professionals to meet distressed families. Their readiness to help them is clouded by conflicting professional
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A fall from the stars: a critical psychoanalytic reading of James Gray’s film ‘Ad Astra (to the stars)’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tim Smith
ABSTRACT This reading of James Gray’s science fiction film ‘Ad Astra’ explores, largely from a post-Kleinian perspective, phantasised restrictions on object relations that may result in a developmental arrest in late adolescence. The phantasy of omnipotence, with its dominating impact on the mind, is considered, including how this may link with socio-contextual impingements on boys’ developing masculine
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Creating distance from adolescents’ anger: psychotherapists’ responses to conversational trouble in Short Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Eleni Chourdaki, Jocelyn Catty, Elena Della Rosa
ABSTRACT The exploration of negative feelings is one of the core principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, yet anger experienced towards the therapist may lead to increased risk, ruptures in the therapeutic relationship and dropout. This study explored the psychotherapists’ immediate responses to patients’ anger in Short Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP). Data came from a randomised controlled
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Editorial Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Alexandra de Rementeria
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Psychological roots of the climate crisis: neoliberal exceptionalism and the culture of uncare Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Joan Herrmann
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Correction Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-06
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Weaving between and beyond tribal states of mind: revisiting our identity as child psychotherapists Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Nikolaos Tzikas, Victoria Nicolodi
ABSTRACT In this paper, the authors try to understand the concepts of tribe and tribalism and their effect on our professional identities as child psychotherapists. Firstly, we will define these concepts and retrospectively go through the history and way that child psychotherapy developed and became a profession in its own right. Hearing about the trauma of war and the schisms within the profession
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Commentary on the paper by Marcus Evans: ‘Assessment and treatment of a gender-dysphoric person with a traumatic history’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Tara Pepper Goldsmith, James M. FitzGerald, Fraser Arends, Pamela Peters
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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‘I’ve started my journey to coping better’: exploring adolescents’ journeys through an internet-based psychodynamic therapy (I-PDT) for depression Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Molly MacKean, Tanya Lecchi, Rose Mortimer, Nick Midgley
The need to account for adolescents’ views during the design and development of therapeutic interventions is well documented, yet there remains a paucity of research doing so, particularly among in...
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Commentary on the paper by Marcus Evans: ‘Assessment and treatment of a gender-dysphoric person with a traumatic history’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Anastassis Spiliadis
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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How to live. What to do. How great novels help us change Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Kate Purdy
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Response piece to an article in issue 48.3 of this Journal by Judith Edwards: ‘The elusive pursuit of good enough fatherhood, and the single parent family as a modern phenomenon’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Andrew Briggs
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Making use of countertransference in qualitative research: exploring the experiences of mental health professionals working with refugee and immigrant families Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anthia Navridi, Lida Anagnostaki
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to explore countertransference in qualitative research. Specifically, through the examination of a study which explored the experiences of mental health professionals working with refugee and immigrant families with infants and young children, the paper aims to demonstrate how the monitoring of countertransference can be transformed into a useful research tool
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Assessment and treatment of a gender-dysphoric person with a traumatic history Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Marcus Evans
ABSTRACT This paper presents a composite case based on a group of female-to-male transitioners with a history of trauma due to early separation or family illness. These early traumas may interfere with the process of integrating the mind and body. Symptoms of gender dysphoria often arise from, or increase in response to, subsequent separations later in life, as individuals transition from childhood
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Research digest: mental health implications of climate change for children and young people Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Rachel Acheson
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Quietly subversive’: the selected works of Dilys Daws Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Alexandra de Rementeria
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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Mixed heritage, mixed feelings: psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy during the coronavirus pandemic Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Michela Biseo
ABSTRACT This paper is an account of Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy (PPIP) by a white therapist with a mixed heritage family during the coronavirus pandemic. It describes changes to the distant relationship between a mother and her infant son who appears at first to be developing an avoidant, dissociated defensive strategy to ward off painful projections from his traumatised parent. Necessary
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The search for identity: working therapeutically with adolescents in crisis Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Rachel Acheson, Maria Papadima
ABSTRACT In the news, there is frequent mention of adolescents’ mental health nowadays being ‘in crisis’. This paper offers the perspective of two psychotherapists working in a crisis service, trying to engage adolescents and their families in therapeutic work. There is an argument for a combined developmental, psychoanalytic and systemic approach to understand and work with the perceived mental health
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Working with trauma; finding new ports of entry1 Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Lucy Alexander, Sian Barnett, Verity Wilkinson
ABSTRACT This paper describes how, in the wake of a spate of fatal knife crime in one London borough, the council, Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) got together to think about how to improve outcomes for their young people. Starting with schools and pupil referral units, the CAMHS and educational psychology service were commissioned to work with
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Alone (together): becoming a parent in the pandemic Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Helen Sussman
ABSTRACT This paper draws on the author’s own experience of becoming a parent during the Covid-19 pandemic as a starting point from which to explore, and consider, how the experience of new parenthood was profoundly affected by the unusual and challenging circumstances created by the pandemic. Using a psychoanalytic lens, the author considers the legacy effects of Covid-19 restrictions and the atmosphere
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More than I expected: a qualitative exploration of participants’ experience of an online adoptive parent-toddler group Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Francesca Di Lorenzo, Lydia Barge, Lisa Thackeray, Sarah Peter, Isabella Vainieri
ABSTRACT The question of how best to support adoptive parents has been attracting increasing attention in recent years. This paper aims to explore participants’ experience of a new online intervention for adoptive parents and toddlers, which was adapted from an existing psychoanalytic Parent-Toddler Group (PTG) model. Participants were recruited from the parents attending the intervention, and four
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Addressing the baby and atypical maternal behaviour in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Sarah Miltz, Elaine Pennicott-Banks, Evrinomy Avdi, Tessa Baradon
ABSTRACT This paper aims to further our understanding of the process of therapy in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (PPIP). Using a single-case study methodology, it examines the emergence of atypical maternal behaviours in the sessions and considers direct therapeutic work with the baby. The research material for this study consists of video tapes and verbatim transcripts of two sessions
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Editorial Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Alexandra de Rementeria
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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The elusive pursuit of good enough fatherhood, and the single parent family as a modern phenomenon Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Judith Edwards
ABSTRACT This paper looks at the role of fathers in the family. Structured around three poems, it emphasises the need for a triangular structure in the mind, enabling the child (and any individual) to look at ‘reality’, internal and thus external too, from a third position. The Oedipal situation, what Hanna Segal called ‘the core complex’, lies deep within the mind of any individual, and continues
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Response piece from a delegate at the symposium Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Emily Morgan
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Towards a general theory of love Journal of Child Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Charlotte Burton
Published in Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)