Table of Contents
Introduction
This course is a clinical case conference. Clinical material will be presented by each CA and from the instructor (distinguishing it from the third trimester’s Continuous Case Conference). We will focus on the clinical applications of the material learned in the previous trimester’s course on foundations of child psychoanalysis. We will foster a multi-theoretical perspective by looking at the same clinical material from multiple theoretical lenses. There are few assigned readings and there is space for us to talk together about issues you want to address, so the syllabus is a live document for us to change to meet your training needs and interests.
December 4, 2020 — Technique in Child Analysis
Ablon, S.L. (2001). The Work of Transformation: Changes in Technique since Anna Freud’s Normality and Pathology in Childhood. Psychoanal. St. Child, 56:27-38.
Yanof, J.; Harrison, A. (2017). “Technique in Child Analysis” in Textbook of Psychoanalysis. Edited by Glen Gabbard, Bonnie Litowitz, Paul Williams. New Dellhi, India, CBS Publishers. pp333-348.
December 11, 2020 — Getting Started and Recommendation for Analysis
Case material: Kelly
Novick, K.K. Novick, J. (2002). Parent Work in Analysis II—Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Recommendation, Beginning, and Middle Phases of Treatment. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 2(1):1-27.
January 8, 2021 — Getting Started and the Child Play Environment
Case Material: Kelly
Joseph, B. (1998). Thinking about a Playroom. J. Child Psychother., 24(3):359-366
January 15, 2021 — Getting Started: The analyst’s mind
Case Material: Kimberly
Ehrlich, L.T. (2013). Analysis Begins in the Analyst’s Mind: Conceptual and Technical Considerations on Recommending Analysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 61(6):1077-1107
Wille, R. (2012). The Analyst’s Trust in Psychoanalysis and the Communication of That Trust in Initial Interviews. Psychoanal. Q., 81(4):875-904
January 22, 2021 — Case Material
Case Material: Kimberly
Midterm evaluations should be conducted at the end of this class. Discussion of how remote classes are handled and suggestions on how it can be improved will of course be very welcome. An outline to start the discussion is provided in a link below.
Midterm Evaluation Discussion Questions
Fincke, C.D. (2002). A Love of Things Irreconcilable: The Narration of Metaphor in Child Psychotherapy. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 2(1):107-123
January 29, 2021 — Case Material
Case Material: Taryn
Owens, T.M. (2013). The Need for an Other’s Mind: An Innovative Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 12(1):1-9
February 5, 2021 — Intersectionality in child work
Case Material: Taryn
Saketopoulou, A. (2011). Minding the gap: Intersections between gender, race, and class in
work with gender variant children. In Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21(2), pp. 192-209
February 19, 2021 — Psychopharmacology
Presenter: Ellika McGuire, MD
Chubinsky, P. and Rappaport, N. (2006). Medication and the Fragile Alliance. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 5(1):111-123
Tutter, A. (2006). Medication as Object, JAPA, 54:781-804.
February 26, 2021 — Dreams
Case Material: Janelle
Ablon, S.L. and Mack, J.E. (1980). Children’s Dreams Reconsidered. Psychoanal. St. Child, 35:179-217.
March 5, 2021 — Loss and Bereavement
Case Material: Janelle
Furman, E. (1986). On Trauma—When is the Death of a Parent Traumatic?. Psychoanal. St. Child, 41:191-208
Sugarman, A. (1997). Dynamic Underpinnings of Father Hunger as Illuminated in the Analysis of an Adolescent Boy. Psychoanal. St. Child, 52:227-243
March 12, 2021
Levy-Warren, M.H. (2014). A Knot in the Gut: Transference/Counter-Transference and Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in an Adolescent Treatment. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 13(2):133-141
Lieberman, A.F. and Harris, W.W. (2007). Still Searching for the Best Interests of the Child. Psychoanal. St. Child, 62:211-238