Main description:

Erotic transference and countertransference is a core psychoanalytic topic, but very rarely discussed for underage patients * Offers key theory and clinical guidance to managing sexuality in child and adolescent work * Contains contributions from key figures in the international psychoanalytic community

Contents:

1. Types of sexual transference and countertransference in psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents 2.Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents 3.Traversing challenging terrain: discussion of Mary Brady's 'Braving the Erotic Field' 4. On the new semantics of transference love 5. Child, parents and psychoanalyst: binocular vision in the erotic field 6. Elsa's sexual fantasies in a narcissistic and erotic transference 7. The tears of a clown: dreaming the erotic in the service of integration 8. A boy's terror and fascination with the male body 9. The play of Eros: The story of an adolescent boy, his body, and his analyst's body 10. Too close for comfort: the challenges of engaging with sexuality in work with adolescents 11. Erotic, eroticized and perverse transference in child analysis 12. A special boy: melancholic terrors of awakening the erotic man 13.'Sleeping beauties': avoidance of the erotic in adolescence