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A Question of Technique

Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents

• Edited by Monica Lanyado, Ann Horne

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• Price: $33.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 272
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 6th April 2006
• ISBN: 978-0-415-37915-1

About the Book

A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily.

Coming from the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis, the contributors, a range of experienced practitioners and teachers, describe how their technique has quietly changed and developed over the years, and put this process in its theoretical context.

This book will appeal to child and adolescent psychotherapists, analysts and counsellors who wish to explore more Winnicottian approaches to therapeutic work.

Table of Contents

Contributors. Barnett, Foreword. A Note on Confidentiality. Lanyado, Horne, Introduction. Horne, The Independent Position in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: Roots and Implications. Sternberg, Not Simply ‘Doing’: Thoughts From the Literature on Technique. Part I: Parent-Infant Work. Dowling, 'The Capacity to be Alone': Rediscovering Winnicott and his Relevance to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy. Hamilton, The Concept of Mourning and its Roots in Infancy (1988). Hamilton, Reflections on ‘The Concept of Mourning and its Roots in Infancy (1988)'. Part II: Latency and Adolescence. Gibbs, A Question of Balance: Working with the Looked-after Child and his Network. Lanyado, The Playful Presence of the Therapist: ‘Antidoting’ Defences in the Therapy of a Late Adopted Adolescent Patient. Horne, Brief Communications from the Edge: Psychotherapy with Challenging Adolescents. Hopkins, Narcissistic Illusions in Late Adolescence: Defensive Kleinian Retreats or Winnicottian Opportunities? Bailey, There is No Such Thing as an Adolescent. Part III: Taking the Broader View. Lanyado, Doing 'Something Else': The Value of Therapeutic Communication When Offering Consultations and Brief Psychotherapy. Horne, Interesting Things to Say-and Why. Lanyado, Horne, Conclusion: Where Independent Minds Meet.

About the Author(s)

Monica Lanyado is a training supervisor at the British Association of Psychotherapists. She is former co-editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and co-editor of the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Ann Horne works at the Portman Clinic, London and is co-editor of the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy