Live Company

by Alvarez, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780415060967
• ISBN10: 0415060966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Tavistock Books

Summary

Anne Alverez integrates modern psychoanalytic theory with new findings in infant development and infant psychiatry to shed new light on ways of understanding autistic, psychotic and severely disturbed children and adolescents.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Modern Developments in Psychoanalysis

The Long Fall

Vegetable Life and Awakenings

Becoming Vertebrate

Growth of a Mind: The Function of Reclamation

Reclamation and Live Company: Normal Counterparts in the Caretaker-Infant Relationship

Making the Thought Thinkable: Perspective on Introjection and Projection

The Problem of the New Idea: Thought Disorder and Behaviour Disturbance as Forms of Cognitive Deficit

A Developmental View of 'Defence': Borderline Patients

The Necessary Angel: Idealization as a Development

Clinical Depression and Despair: Defences and Recoveries

Some Precursors of Reparation in the Hardened Destructive Child

Child Sexual Abuse: The Need to Remember and the Need to Forget

Beyond the Unpleasure Principle: Play and Symbolism

Wildest Dreams and Lies: Aspiration and Identification in Depressed Children

Autism: The Controversies

Rites and Rituals in Autism: The Use of the Counter-transference

Robbie at 30

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

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