Lacanian Psychotherapy With Children The Broken Piano

by Mathelin, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781892746016
• ISBN10: 1892746018
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

In a groundbreaking integration of the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Tustin, Catherine Mathelin reveals how a child's symptoms can be a striking reflection of its parents' unresolved conflicts. She shows how her patients' art, much of it reproduced here, can communicate both initial anguish and progress in treatment, and draws on her experience of working on a neonatal unit to argue compellingly that a child's mental health can be endangered even before birth. "This is a book hard to put down, filled with the most fascinating brief case vignettes of parents and children who live in worlds disconnected from each other, hoping for experts to heal their suffering." -Anni Bergman, coauthor ofThe Psychological Birth of the Human Infant

Author Biography

Catherine Mathelin

Catherine Mathelin, a psychoanalyst and psychologist, works in the child psychiatry and neonatology units of the Saint-Denis Hospitals. She was a member of Lacan's Ecole Freudienne from 1974 until its dissolution, and the Centre de formation et de recheres psychanalytiques (Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) until the founding by Maud Mannoni of Espace Analytique, of which she is currently a member.



Susan Fairfield

Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.

Table of Contents

The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
The First Meeting with the Analyst
The First Meeting with the Analyst, Thirty Years Later	p. 3
Felicien and the "Intellectual Women"	p. 19
Aurore and Christine, or The Child Waiting Offstage	p. 25
Arthur and the Secret of the Sea Elephants	p. 29
Margot and the Magic Skin Eruptions	p. 35
Paul: How Much Does a Child Cost?	p. 41
Samira: The Child as Symptom, or the Child's Symptom?	p. 45
Valentin and His Lion	p. 49
Violette, or the Drama of Jealousy	p. 53
Lolita, the "Abnormal" Child	p. 59
Adrien, the Tiger, and the "Didy"	p. 63
From the Pediatrician to the Psychoanalyst: "Fix this Child"	p. 67
Listening to Carla's Heart	p. 71
Anna	p. 77
Alexandre, or the Broken Piano	p. 79
From the First Session to the Analytic Treatment
Xenophon, or the Name-Crosses	p. 85
Alice, or the Black Sun of Phobia	p. 107
Jeremy, or the "Clown Theater"	p. 129
The Clever Baby
A Look at the Baby of Today	p. 145
Cannelle and Gingerbread: A Child Who Looks Good Enough to Eat	p. 155
An Analyst on a Neonatal Unit: "A Different Experience"	p. 167
References	p. 183
Index	p. 187
Contributors	p. 193
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