Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Liselotte Grunbaum, MSc, PhD, is a registered psychologist, and a specialist and supervisor of psychotherapy and child psychology in private practice in Copenhagen. She was a founding member and course organiser of the Danish Association of Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and since 1997 has been a supervisor and teacher at the Danish training programme for Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. She organised the child psychotherapy clinic at Aalborg University and is the clinic's supervisor. She is also a member of the EFPP research group, a former coordinator of this group and of the EFPP's Child and Adolescent Section, and has published a number of articles. Karen Vibeke Mortensen, MSc, PhD, is a registered psychologist and group analyst and a specialist practitioner and supervisor of psychotherapy and child psychology. She is an honorary professor of clinical child psychology at Aalborg University and is in private practice in Copenhagen. She has extensive teaching and supervision experience, including teaching and providing supervision in the Danish training programme for psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapists. She has edited books and articles on various clinical and theoretical subjects, including group analysis with children and adolescents, theories of psychopathology, assessment, research, psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults, and supervision. Her doctoral thesis, 'Form and Content in Children's Human Figure Drawings', was published by NYU Press in 1991. Together with Liselotte Grunbaum she has edited 'Play and Power' (2010) in the EFFP Book Series.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABOUT THE AUTHORS, FOREWORD, INTRODUCTION, PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHODYNAMIC CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY, CHAPTER ONE: Psychodynamic theories of development and psychopathology, CHAPTER TWO: What is psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy?, CHAPTER THREE: Referral and assessment, PART II: THERAPEUTIC SETTINGS AND THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, CHAPTER FOUR: Therapeutic settings in child and adolescent psychotherapy, CHAPTER FIVE: The therapeutic relationship, CHAPTER SIX: Understanding drawings and symbolic play, CHAPTER SEVEN: Work with parents, CHAPTER EIGHT: Psychotherapy with adolescents, PART III: THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS, CHAPTER NINE: Beginnings and endings of child and adolescent psychotherapy, CHAPTER TEN: Breaks: a window to fundamental relationship themes, PART IV: PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED MALTREATMENT AND COMPLEX TRAUMA, CHAPTER ELEVEN: Psychotherapy in the aftermath of early neglect and abuse, CHAPTER TWELVE: Psychotherapy with children who have suffered complex trauma, PART V: RESEARCH IN PSYCHODYNAMIC CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY, CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The present state of research in psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy, REFERENCES, INDEX