The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child; Volume 64

by Edited by Robert A. King, M.D., Samuel Abrams, M.D., A. Scott Dowling, M.D., andPaul M. Brinich, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780300153293
• ISBN10: 0300153295
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-06-29
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The latest volume in the esteemed series includes essays on "Perspectives on Creativity" by Frances Lang, Joan Raphael-Leff, and Susam Scheftel; "Play and Representation" by Josephine L. Wright, Katharine Gould, Pamela Meersand, and Nicole Vliegen; "Clinical Research" by Susan P. Sherkow, Sarah Kamens, and Laura Loewenthal; "Theory" by Moshe Halevy Spero; and "Technique" by Ivan Sherick, and Alan Sugarman.

Table of Contents

Perspectives on Creativity
Hans Loewald and the Transformation of Passion	p. 1
The "Dreamer" by Daylight: Imaginative Play, Creativity, and Generative Identity	p. 14
The Cosmic Child: The Artwork of Joseph Cornell and a Type of Unusual Sensibility, or Thinking Inside the Box: The Mind That Channels Infinity	p. 54
Play and Representation
The Princess Has to Die: Representing Rupture and Grief in the Narrative of Adoption	p. 75
The Use of Fantasy Play in the Treatment of a Six-Year-Old Adopted Girl	p. 92
Play and the Older Child: Developmental and Clinical Opportunities	p. 112
Two People Playing Together: Some Thoughts on Play, Playing, and Playfulness in Psychoanalytic Work	p. 131
Clinical Research
A Clinical Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Eating Disorders from Mothers to Daughters	p. 153
Theory
The Joke Envelope: A Neglected Precursor of the Psychic Envelope Concept in Freud's Writing	p. 193
Technique
A Proposal to Revive "Parent Guidance": An Illustration of a Brief Intervention with the Mother of a Toddler	p. 229
The Contribution of the Analyst's Actions to Mutative Action: A Developmental Perspective	p. 247
Trauma
Using Context to Treat Traumatized Children	p. 275
Introduction to Hansi Kennedy's "Children in Conflict: Anna Freud and the War Nurseries"	p. 299
Introduction to Hansi Kennedy's "Children in Conflict": The Anna Freud Centre Perspective-from the Directorial Team of the Anna Freud Centre	p. 303
Children in Conflict: Anna Freud and the War Nurseries	p. 306
The Relentless Past: The Effect of Chronic Sexual Abuse in Childhood on Fifty Years of Adolescent and Adult Development	p. 320
Index	p. 351
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