Psychotic States in Children

Dubinsky, Alex

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction /Margaret Rustin -- Theoretical Overview /Alex Dubinsky -- The Technique of Child Psychotherapy /Susan Reid -- Part I. Psychosis and Sexual Abuse -- 1. Finding a Safe Place: A Four-Year-Old Child's Recovery from Sexual Abuse /Deborah Sussman -- 2. The Difficulty of Establishing a Space for Thinking: The Therapy of a Seven-Year-Old Girl /Lynda Miller -- 3. Survival of the Self: A Sixteen-Year-Old Girl's Search for a Good Object /Chriso Andreou -- Discussion /Alex and Hbl2ne Dubinsky -- Part II. Psychosis and Developmental Delay -- 4. The Beginnings of Mind: Psychotherapy of a Sexually Abused Six-Year-Old Girl /Ann Wells -- 5. Symbolisation and the Sense of Identity /Daphne Briggs -- 6. 'Here 1 am!': Self and Object in a Developmentally Delayed Boy with Autistic Features /Sara Rance -- 7. A Little Boy Who Did Not Want to Learn Anything /Alex Dubinsky -- Discussion /Maria Rhode -- Part 111. The Complexity of Psychotic States -- 8. Psychosis and Autism: Schizophrenic, Perverse and Manic- Depressive States During Psychotherapy /Genevihe Haag -- 9. Jeremy and the Bitten Roof /Hbldne Dubinsky -- 10. 'The Ghost is Coming': The Fear of Annihilation in a Nine-Year-Old Boy /S.M.S henuin-White -- 11. Going to Pieces: Autistic and Schizoid Solutions /Maria Rhode -- 12. Rigidity and Stability in a Psychotic Patient: Some Thoughts about Obstacles to Facing Reality in Psychotherapy /Margaret Rustin -- Discussion /Margaret Rustin -- Postscript /Margaret Rustin -- Glossary /Maria Rhode -- References -- Index.