Child Psychoanalytic Training (CPT)
2022-23, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 10:15-11:45am
Donald Schimmel, PhD
Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome to our four-week seminar on "Play in Middle Childhood". Based on your feedback, we will address the topic of play through a range of topics, including how to apply Self Psychology to the treatment of children, working with parents, and how to think about the “play space” when working with latency-aged as well as young adolescent children. I will discuss a case example from my practice that illustrates and pulls together the abovementioned topics. In our final class, we will read and discuss an article about a girl who engaged in self-harm as a concrete method of violently separating herself from the memories of the scars of her early childhood trauma.
Unless otherwise stated, all articles are accessible on PEP Web. Any article or chapter not on PEP-Web will be available as a PDF file before the first class.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, the candidate will be able to:
- Apply Self Psychology principles to the treatment of children
- Acquire an expanded view of the play space in child psychoanalysis
- Become more effective in involving and working with parents in child psychoanalysis
- Acquire a deeper understanding of how children communicate through primitive and non-verbal behavior
March 31, 2023
[31 pages]Miller, J.P. (1996). Ch3, “Secondary SelfObject, Secondary Self-Structure” in Using Self Psychology in Child Psychotherapy: The Restoration of the Child. Jason Aronson Inc, NJ, and London. pp75-115
Read pages 75-85. (Pages 86-104 are optional.)
Miller, J.P. (1996). Ch5, “Principles of Treatment” in Using Self Psychology in Child Psychotherapy: The Restoration of the Child. Jason Aronson Inc, NJ, and London. pp151-170
April 14, 2023
[25 pages]Kohn, E.I.; Huddleston, C.; Kaufman, A. (2019). Analyzing Children. New York, New York: Rowman & Littlefield. pp127-142.
Kohn, E.I.; Huddleston, C.; Kaufman, A. (2019) Analyzing Children. New York, New York: Rowman & Littlefield. pp143-151.
April 21, 2023
[21 pages]Green, V. (2000). Ch2, “Therapeutic space for re-creating the child in the mind of the parents” in Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (John Tsiantis, Ed.). London: Karnac Books. pp25-45.
July 14, 2023
[27 pages]Balottin, L., Quagelli, L. & Costantini, M.V. (2021) A Body of One’s Own: From Self-Cutting to the Cuts of Separation in an Adolescent Suffering from Traumatic Early Abandonments. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69:109-135