{"title":"The Use of Digital Devices in Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Exploration of Pros and Cons","authors":"A. Smolen","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, the author explores the use of electronic devices when they enter the treatment room in child and adolescent psychoanalytic therapies. Smolen demonstrates through the clinical material of two adolescent patients, how electronic devices enter the treatments in a pathological and malignant way. She continues to demonstrate through the treatments of another adolescent and a latency child how the use of devices acted as transitional objects and allowed both children to progress in their treatments, however she continues to question the optimal use of such devices in these treatments. Smolen finishes by demonstrating how a young child used the electronic device to communicate difficulties with separation and how she was able to work through these conflicts and move on to more age appropriate play. Finally, Smolen demonstrated how by prohibiting such devices and working with parents her patient was able to access his creativity and ability to play.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Meaning through Play: Psychoanalytic Intervention in a Pre-School Child with Global Developmental Delay","authors":"Suzanne Donner","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859278","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global developmental delay (GDD) is defined as significant delay in two or more developmental domains, including motor, speech and language, cognition, social/personal and activities of daily living. The prevalence of GDD is estimated to be 1–3% of children below 5 years of age, yet the child psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature is very limited as to effective treatment modalities for pre-school children with severe and/or multiple developmental delays. For these impacted children, the treatments are often highly fragmented with multiple providers typically prioritizing their own objectives with potential results, from the child’s and the parents’ point of view, of uncoordinated, confusing, challenging and anxiety-producing experiences. This case report, describing the first 2 ½ years of the psychoanalytic treatment of a 3 ½ year old girl with global developmental delay, proposes that, in the treatment of such pre-school children, a psychoanalytic play therapy model with multiple visits per week effectively can: (i) focus on and address the child’s developmental and emotional state as a whole; (ii) provide a safe, stable and containing developmental object relationship for the child to use effectively in their developmental process to build internal psychic structure; (iii) significantly decrease anxiety and oppositional or negative behaviors by verbally linking words and co-created meaning to difficult feelings, problems and memories and thereby provide the child with tools to understand and govern their own emotions and behaviors and finally (iv) help the larger system of parents and allied professionals organize the clinical data, prioritize goals and shift technique to consider the child’s mental states.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859278","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43961393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescent Boys and Pornography: Notes on a Complex System","authors":"R. Galatzer‐Levy","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adolescent boys’ engagement with pornography serves multiple developmental functions. Like other external supports of developent it can contribute to problematic development. Understanding these multiple functions and their interrelationships as they function as part of a complex system leads to a fuller picture of this aspect of boys’ development and its multiple potential pathways. It supports a clinical exploratory attitude that starts with an appreciation that use of pornography is not best thought of as a symptom and continues as an outline of potential meanings and functions of this activity, particularly as it interacts with the broader field of the adolescent’s sexuality.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44038510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction - African American Children in the World of Structural Racism: Psychoanalytic Perspectives","authors":"B. Stoute, Michael Slevin","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859297","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A contemporary concern for historical, social and cultural representations in the unconscious in contemporary psychoanalysis has joined with an expansion of psychoanalytic concern for work in the community at large. In this series of articles, the impact of racism in the worlds of African children is explored in the work of Kirkland Vaughans, Jama Adams, Michael Slevin and Marie Rudden. Vaughans discusses the impact of the intergenerational transmission of trauma from slavery on Black boys; Adams explores creative self-making in African American adolescents as they navigate an often racially hostile culture; Slevin reflects on his countertransference, often with regard to race and class, working psychoanalytically in the emergency room of an urban hospital, while Rudden meticulously demonstrates how structural racism combined with group dysfunction allowed the series of events that led to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49059306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Die One’s Own Death – Thinking with Freud in a Time of Pandemic, Livestreamed from London Freud Museum, 23 September 2020","authors":"J. Rose","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859291","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It has been a hundred years since the tragic loss of Freud’s daughter, Sophie Halberstadt-Freud, to the Spanish flu shortly after the end of World War One. In this essay, delivered as the 47th Annual Vienna Freud Museum lecture, Jacqueline Rose argues that Freud’s historic moment – of grief, pandemic and war – had an even more decisive impact on his thinking than has previously been recognised. Freud’s writings on the death drive collide with, and are fuelled by, an increasingly urgent engagement with our innermost psychic and biological relationship to the past and, at the same time, with the cruelty and injustice of the world. Today, as we confront the darkness of the hour, psychoanalysis has never been more urgently needed. What can we still learn from Freud about how to live and how to die in our own troubled times?","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45453108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Portable Psychoanalytic Frame: Evenly Suspended Attention, Bick’s Method of Infant Observation and Its [Unexpected] Application by an Observer in a Day Care","authors":"T. Hatzor","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1690905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper uses Freud’s idea of evenly suspended attention, as applied through Bick’s method of infant observation, to demonstrate a technique crucial to the work of the parent-infant clinician. Cultivating an evenly suspended state of attention is shown to be an indispensable technique for the clinician’s mind at work, especially for the parent infant clinician, whose external setting is unpredictable and challenging. Without a fixed external setting, a portable frame is required: the internal setting established by combining psychoanalytic theory with this specific kind of free-floating attention. This claim will be illustrated by an observer’s use of attentiveness in a daycare setting. The observer gathered the experience of a four-month-old infant in psychic peril. Lacking his caregiver’s attention, the infant was object-absent. The observer’s sensitive, absorbing stance was pivotal: not only to finding meaning and containing the primitive anxieties of an infant in trouble, but also – critically – to enabling the development of the infant’s sense of self by building a mental bridge to an unavailable caregiver, who could be reached and ultimately found a place in her mind for him.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45138161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do Parents Hit Their Children? From Cultural to Unconscious Determinants","authors":"G. Holden","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1690858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690858","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Parental use of corporal punishment (CP) as a way of disciplining children is a widespread global problem. A number of child and family problems are linked to the behavior. Despite being commonly used to discipline children in many countries, its use is far from universal. Why do some parents use it while others do not? This paper examines the principal determinants, or predictors, that influence parental use of this form of punishment. I begin with a brief historical overview of the efforts to study the determinants of parental behavior. I then provide a brief summary of the four major categories of variables that predict CP use: socio-cultural influences; the family and social environment; child variables; and parental variables. Two types of parental variables – conscious thoughts as well as unconscious motives–will be examined in some detail. It is noteworthy that unconscious forces have received little research attention and typically go ignored. This raises an important methodological point: how CP is assessed affects the determinants studied. The article ends with a discussion of some future directions for the study of the predictors of CP and other disciplinary responses.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45511979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Won’t They Learn: Unconscious Underpinnngs of Corporal Punishment","authors":"J. Novick, K. K. Novick","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1690868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690868","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Decades of research have demonstrated unequivocally that physical punishment is harmful to children and leads to later negative outcomes. Yet over 80% of parents in the United States continue to spank, and 30% of psychologists support spanking. This paper examines why there is such a disparity between knowledge and the behavior of legalized violence against children. The authors suggest that violence against children serves multiple unconscious functions that feel necessary to the psychological survival of the perpetrator. It is a manifestation of a powerful defensive motivation to maintain a sadomasochistic, “closed system” response to helplessness experienced by adults. The authors describe some interventions that carry the hope of change.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690868","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42655270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning Points in Adolescent Psychoanalysis and the Centrality of Transference Interpretation: A Discussion of Dr. Lament’s Case of Grace","authors":"C. Narcisi","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1690901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690901","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the discussion of Dr. Lament’s evocative and moving presentation of 15 year old Grace’s treatment, I focus on the technical necessity of transference interpretation in adolescent analysis. I believe that the pendulum may have swung too far in the direction of developmental help and that a correction is indicated. Issues of turning points in analysis, countertransference, apres-coup, and termination are also briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690901","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41647781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Can’t We See It?","authors":"N. Spira","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1690872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690872","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relevance of a patient’s experience of physical punishment in childhood may be obscured and difficult to acknowledge for both patient and analyst. This paper illustrates my own struggle with the issue by presenting excerpts of my work with an adult analytic patient, children in a mental health clinic, and PTSD patients in the Veterans Administration system. In the discussion that follows I demonstrate how the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal can be useful in expanding our ability to engage in meaningful discussions with our patients regarding this issue.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1690872","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42532245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}