Main description:

This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP Monograph Series.

Contents:

Foreword to the Series , Introduction , Countertransference issues in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents: a brief review , Thoughts on countertransference and observation , Reflections on transference, countertransference, session frequency, and the psychoanalytic process , Some problems in transference and countertransference in child and adolescent analysis , The transference mirage and the pitfalls of countertransference (with special emphasis on adolescence) , The influence of the presence of parents on the countertransference of the child psychotherapist , Different uses of the countertransference with neurotic, borderline, and psychotic patients , Bisexual aspects of the countertransference in the therapy of psychotic children , Transference and countertransference issues in the in-patient psychotherapy of traumatized children and adolescents