Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in a Changing World

Catalina Bronstein is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a former president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is a child and adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and works at the Brent Adolescent Centre in London and in private practice. Bronstein is also Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. Sara Flanders is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She works at the Brent Adolescent Centre in London and is Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Forum of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.

Foreword Introduction Part 1: New Frontiers, Diagnostic, Theoretical and Technical Challenges Introduction 1. Early Intervention for Toddlers at Risk of Autism: Theorisation, Controversies, Convergences 2. The Role of Early Anxieties when Emerging from Autistic Pathological Organisations: The Dilemma of Cure 3. Questions of Origins and Identity in Today's Children 4. Patient(s) in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Part 2: Children on the Edge: Domestic and Social Violence, Abuse and Deprivation Introduction 5. Cassie: From Violent Eruption to Gathering Thoughts 6. The Child Analyst as a 'New Developmental Object' to a Developmentally Delayed Young Child 7. Psychoanalytic Intimacy as an Alternative to Psychic Suffering for Children on the Edge Part 3: New Realities, New Challenges Introduction 8. New Challenges for Adolescence: the Virtual World and the Gendered Body 9. Child Analysis 2.0: Jonah and the Internet 10. Enforced Virtuality: An Unavoidable Dialogue with some Basics of Communication within Child Psychotherapy/Analysis 11. Primitive Anxieties about Intrusions: Imaginative Conjectures about "no Entry" Defences and Covid-19