Early Development and Its Disturbances

by Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne; Canestri, Jorge; Target, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781855757455
• ISBN10: 1855757451
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-30
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

This is one of the first psychoanalytic books devoted to ADHD and other disturbances of early development. Some of the papers of this volume have been presented at the 9th Joseph Sandler Research Conference which took place in Frankfurt, organized by both Research Subcommittees of the International Psychoanalytical Association: The Research Subcommittee for Empirical Research (Chair: Peter Fonagy) and the Research Subcommittee for Clinical, Conceptual, Historical and Epistemological Research (Chair: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber). The research conference carried the name of Joseph Sandler, one of the most productive psychoanalytic researchers of the last decades. With this volume the authors contribute to a more intensive engagement of psychoanalysts in this field.

Author Biography

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. Vice Chair of the Research Board of the IPA Full Professor for Psychoanalytic Psychology at the University of Kassel and Head Director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt am Main. Jorge Canestri is a training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University. Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
About the Editors and Contributors	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic research on early development and ADHD	p. 3
Early Development and its Disturbances	p. 51
Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience	p. 53
Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper
Developmental risks and their sequelae: Effects on attachment and mentalization	p. 77
Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper
Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience	p. 87
Coping with children's temperament	p. 97
Discussion of William B. Carey's Paper
Coping with children's temperament: Early development and its disturbances	p. 113
Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry of so-called ADHD children	p. 123
Discussion of Heidi Staufenberg's Paper
ADHD from the empirical and clinical perspectives	p. 143
Further comments on Sophia's mimetic autism, with special reference to Bion's theory of thinking	p. 153
Discussion of Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch De Ahumada's Paper	p. 175
Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult	p. 185
Psychoanalytic Research: Hopes, Views, Controversial Discussion	p. 207
Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research	p. 209
Trauma or drive-drive and trauma: Revisited	p. 219
Pluralism in theory and in research-and what now? A plea for connectionism	p. 239
New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual research have to offer?	p. 267
Index	p. 281
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