Transforming Infantile Trauma in Analytic Work with Children and Adults

Alessandra Cavalli, PhD, was an internationally known child, adolescent and adult analyst who created a unique clinical model integrating Jung, Klein and Bion. A training and supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, she taught infant observation seminars and lectured and supervised widely in the UK and abroad.

Introduction 1. Casper or 'the cabinet of horrors' 2. Power cut in the countertransference 3. On receiving what has gone astray, on finding what has got lost 4. Trangenerational transmission of indigestible facts: from trauma, deadly ghosts and mental voids to meaning-making interpretations 5. From affect to feelings and thoughts: from abuse to care and understanding 6. Clinging, gripping, holding, containment: Reflections on a survival reflex and the development of a capacity to separate 7. From not knowing to knowing: an early infantile trauma involving separation 8. Giving voice to psychic pain: The British-Mexican connection, On the Vicissitudes of creating a home for street children 9. Identification - obstacle to individuation, or: on how to become 'me' 10. Noah's Ark: technical and theoretical implications concerning the use of metaphor in the treatment of trauma 11. Continuous becoming or the experience of coming into being