Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, & Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and maintains a psychotherapy and consultation practice with children, adolescents, and adults in New York City. Andrew Harlem, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, an instructor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), and faculty member at Access Institute for Psychological Services. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is past president of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and maintains a psychotherapy and consultation practice in San Francisco, California.

Introduction Andrew Harlem, Ph.D.

Section I: Infant Research, Reflective Functioning and Mutual Regulation

Chapter 1 Being-With: From infancy through philosophy to psychoanalysis Bruce Reis, Ph.D.

Chapter 2 How We Know How to Be with Others: Infant-parent psychotherapy for early indicators of autism spectrum disorders Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.

Chapter 3 Trauma and Attachment: Clinical techniques to enhance reflective functioning Miriam Steele, Ph.D.

Chapter 4 Neglect and its Neglect: Developmental science, psychoanalytic thinking and countertransference vitality Graham Music, Ph.D.

Section II: Play, Dreaming, and the Growth of Mind

Chapter 5 The Universe of Play: Technique in contemporary child therapy Peter Carnochan, Ph.D.

Chapter 6 The Analyst as Dreaming Filmmaker Antonio Ferro & Elena Molinari

Chapter 7 The Emergence of the Analyst’s Childhood: Embodied history and its influence on the dyadic system Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D.

Chapter 8 Theory of Mind and Therapeutic Action: A Contemporary Freudian Integration Neal Vorus, Ph.D.

Section III: Mutuality and the Self in Relation

Chapter 9 A Child Therapist at Work: Playing, talking, and the therapist’s inner dialogue Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D.

Chapter 10 The Origins of Relationality: The role of pre- and perinatal experience in the structure, psychopathology and treatment of the relational self Brent Willock, Ph.D.

Chapter 11 "Is This Chair Alive?": Interpersonal relating and the beginnings of the self Seth Aronson, Psy.D.

Section IV: Re-Imagining Gender

Chapter 12 What’s Your Gender? Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.

Chapter 13 Holding Futurity in Mind: Therapeutic action in the relational treatment of a transgender girl Avgi Saketopoulou, Ph.D.