{"title":"The desert, the jungle, and the garden: some aspects of autistic functioning and language development","authors":"C. Tamm","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-4","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on a retrospective qualitative study based on psychotherapy sessions with children presenting autistic features who use language in atypical ways. The purpose of this research was to explore what factors could hinder or enhance the development of communicative language and symbolic thinking. The method of analysing two different cases was chosen because of similarities but, more importantly, marked differences between the two children’s clinical presentations. The two children selected for the research presented language difficulties and had been previously diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, they had very different clinical presentations. Autism is considered to be a syndrome with a multi-factorial aetiology and there is much to be investigated and discovered about it. Most researchers and clinicians agree that nature and nurture both play a role in its genesis, and that it has genetic, organic, psychological, and environmental factors implicated in it, to different degrees.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129754327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Focusing on the carer of the traumatized child: on the benefits of psychoanalytic short-term parent work","authors":"Kristīne Tiltiņa","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134350936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical research and practice with babies and young children in care","authors":"J. Wakelyn","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124155328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exploration into the impact of a child psychotherapist’s pregnancy on her clinical work","authors":"Rajni Sharma","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-11","url":null,"abstract":"Pregnancy is dramatic evidence of the difference between men and women and the “for ever incomprehensible and mysterious, strange and apparently hostile” nature of pregnancy. Pregnancy would have been an ever-present reality in S. Freud’s own childhood as his mother was in an almost perpetual pregnant state, giving birth to seven more children before he was 10 years old. The pregnancy afforded a space to communicate aspects of him that were concerned and understanding, the work was incomplete. The therapist’s pregnancy dramatically brings her sexual life into the work. The pregnancy can become synonymous with attacking or rejecting the therapeutic work. Rather than the pregnancy being a natural and accommodatable reality, it seems that, it becomes an aggressive sexual intrusion in the minds of both patients and therapists. Clinical supervisors described how pregnancy throws up particular complexities in clinical work with very deprived children and adolescents where phantasies can abound of dangerous and perverse intercourse resulting in malignant conception.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123709905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do babies know? An exploration of the experience of Bangladeshi mothers and their infants","authors":"F. Watt","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents a selective account of a research journey that takes into the lived experience of a group of Bangladeshi parents, mostly mothers, reflecting on their beliefs about what they know about their babies, including in utero, and young children. It describes the setting for the research, which took place in selected Children’s Centres in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and the rationale behind this. The chapter focuses on the value that the psychoanalytic perspective and receptive practice of child psychotherapists can bring to the research process and the research community. The research took place in the north-eastern part of Tower Hamlets, where the community was predominantly Bangladeshi, mostly originating from the rural Sylhet region. The research method involved six focus groups and three individual semi-structured interviews to generate the data. Each group took place in a Children’s Centre; the interviews took place in the women’s home, and all were tape-recorded.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127135954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding a place of one’s own: a grounded theory approach to reviewing the developmental impact of child psychotherapy with a looked-after 2-year-old child","authors":"Louise Allnutt","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-3","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on a single-case research study in which grounded theory methodology was applied for a retrospective analysis of the clinical material from an intensive psychotherapy treatment. It presents a brief outline of the case followed by a summary of the methodologies applied in the analysis, prior to a discussion of the material. As child psychotherapy has had a long history in the field of looked-after children, it seemed important to further the understanding of the treatment of this particular population with a focus on early development. Given that a psychotherapist’s work is so often focused on the slow and intimate development of a relationship, it is difficult to imagine what kind of research method could effectively clarify or accurately follow its finer contours. The grounded theory approach gave an opportunity to develop greater understanding about some of the themes and phenomena that lie at the heart of many child psychotherapy cases of very young looked-after children.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"506 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116195420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What can I tell you? An exploration of child psychotherapy assessment using grounded theory","authors":"M. Bradley","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"679 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121801028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curiouser and curiouser: researching the K link in psychoanalytic therapy","authors":"E. Ryan","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes a piece of research, based on a single case study of psychoanalytic therapy with a young ADHD boy in care. It deals with the idea of using theorized thematic analysis, a branch of grounded theory, as an approach to tracking the unconscious dynamics in the therapy to understand better Simon’s internal situation and the shifts. The findings would add to the growing case for relational therapy for severely traumatized ADHD children like Simon, in place of more narrow medical treatment and behaviour management. The research takes its general methodological principles from thematic analysis: “a method for identifying, analysing and reporting patterns within data”. Thematic analysis has much in common with grounded theory, but without the aim of developing theory out of data analysis. A theme captures something important about the data in relation to the research question, and represents some level of patterned response or meaning within the data set.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114965633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaks and sibling figures in child psychotherapy","authors":"L. Grünbaum","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on an unexpected windfall of the investigation: the linking of breaks to hostile sibling figures in a child’s mind. It explores core themes in child psychotherapy with children who have suffered early abuse and neglect. The chapter investigates possible links between breaks in the time structure of therapy and such core themes. The chapter examines development of a transparent and systematic methodology for the psychoanalytic case study by application of a rigorous qualitative research method. A main finding of the study was a characteristic pattern of subjective core themes running as a red thread through all Samantha’s relationships, not only inside the therapy, but also in early infancy and her daily life concurrent to therapy. The specific pattern of core themes probably reflects the fact that Samantha early in her life had suffered severe neglect and maltreatment.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122376482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison of process notes and audio recordings in psychoanalytic psychotherapy","authors":"Miriam Creaser","doi":"10.4324/9780429282294-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282294-6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on changes in how patients are represented in the process notes from how they appear in the recording. It explores the presence of an idealized parental transference relationship manifest in the sessions studied. The chapter suggests that this relationship between therapist and patient influences what is changed or forgotten in the process note and that by comparing the two forms of recording - process notes and audio recordings. The data for the study comprise nine recordings of psychoanalytic psychotherapy sessions and the accompanying process notes. The changes in the language in the process note indicate the pattern of minimizing violence and sexuality. The comparison between process note and recording for the patient and her male therapist identifies a parallel process in which the reduction of violence in the notes corresponds to an emphasis on the patient’s vulnerability and her capacity to evoke the wish to look after her.","PeriodicalId":436389,"journal":{"name":"New Discoveries In Child Psychotherapy","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126714447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}