Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Dr. Mary T. Brady, is an adult and child psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the Faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Her books, Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender and Subversion and The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms were published by Routledge in 2018 and 2016, respectively.

1. Types of sexual transference and countertransference in psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents 2.Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents 3.Traversing challenging terrain: discussion of Mary Brady’s 'Braving the Erotic Field' 4. On the new semantics of transference love 5. Child, parents and psychoanalyst: binocular vision in the erotic field 6. Elsa’s sexual fantasies in a narcissistic and erotic transference 7. The tears of a clown: dreaming the erotic in the service of integration 8. A boy’s terror and fascination with the male body 9. The play of Eros: The story of an adolescent boy, his body, and his analyst’s body 10. Too close for comfort: the challenges of engaging with sexuality in work with adolescents 11. Erotic, eroticized and perverse transference in child analysis 12. A special boy: melancholic terrors of awakening the erotic man 13.‘Sleeping beauties’: avoidance of the erotic in adolescence