Main description:

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood.

This book, led by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), commits to shedding light on new developments in theory and practice in this area.

Each chapter offers an expression of current thinking and clinical work with child and adolescent patients, as well as with their parents, families, and community. The complex contributions by brilliant and erudite scholars offer a fresh take on the existing body of thought on infancy and childhood in psychoanalysis that will challenge and enlighten readers of all backgrounds. Within these perspectives, the development of internal and external bonds is the focus, as well as a consideration of how analysts work in their time with young patients at these key moments of the life cycle.

With their expertise in childhood, the contributors share complex views on the link between analysis with young children and psychoanalysis with adults, making it an essential read for child and adolescent psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Contents:

Series editor foreword

Gabriela Legorreta

Preface

Virginia Ungar and Sergio Nick

Introduction

Nilde Parada Franch

Part I: Landscapes of Childhood and Adolescence

Chapter 1: On Playfulness

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Chapter 2: The shifting boundaries of the psychic intimate spaces during childhood and adolescence, in our postmodern occidental societies

Julie Augoyard

Chapter 3: The Oblivious Object

Mary Brady

Chapter 4: Introjective processes, the work on the infantile as a mental state

Monica Cardenal

Chapter 5: The interpretation of oedipal configurations in child analysis

Florence Guignard

Chapter 6: Secrecy in the infantile...

Julieta Alejandra Paglini

Part II: Considerations About Trauma and Parent Infant Analysis

Chapter 7: The parental unconscious: trauma, crypts, fantasies and failures

Nilde Jacob Parada Franch and Vera Regina Jardim Ribeiro Marcondes Fonseca

Chapter 8: Remembering and working through, the Trauma of Paternal loss & maternal postpartum Depression: The Case of Sam

Mali Mann

Chapter 9: Notes on breakdown in child development, misconceptions and disorientations

Emanuela Quagliata

Chapter10: Repairing a fractured child and family mind

Caroline Sehon

Chapter 11: Cyberspace as refuge or prison - An exploration of analytic communication

Majlis Winberg Salomonsson

Part III : New Voices in Child Analysis

Chapter 12: Autistic functioning and psychic pain? Building up possible links

Mariangela Mendes de Almeida

Part IV: The Present

Chapter 13: Developmental impact of very early childhood on treatment and technique

Kerry Kelly Novick

Chapter 14: Video child psychotherapy during confinement: for better or for worse

Julia-Flore Alibert

Chapter 15: Working with Children and their Parents in Pandemic Times

Magdalena Calvo Sanchez-Sierra, Monica Cardenal, Mariela Illan Gomez, Alicia Monserrat

Femenia and Elizabeth Palacios