{"title":"Introduction - In-Session Use of Digital Material in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy","authors":"A. Bram","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859276","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This section on digital media in child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is intended to help fill in a gap in the psychoanalytic literature where much more has been written about the cultural and developmental impact of the digital revolution compared to conceptualization and intervention in clinical work with children and adolescents who wish to access digital media within sessions. In this introductory article, I provide a preview of the section’s articles by four experienced psychoanalytic child clinicians. Each author-clinician offers multiple case illustrations and commentaries on the formulations that undergird their inventions with child and adolescent patients who sought to bring digital devices and media directly into treatment sessions. The hope is that this section will inspire other child analysts and therapists to write about their experiences on treatment’s digital frontier and thus expand our literature on this topic that is of vital importance in contemporary practice.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"304 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47284299","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":"Black Youth: Self-making, Creativity and the Assertion of Hybrid Black Identities","authors":"C. Adams","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859268","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development during adolescence and early adulthood is profoundly exhilarating and transformative, especially given emerging physical, emotional and intellectually capabilities. Psychoanalytic theories of development assume culture as benign and as not being an impediment to good-enough development. This is not the case for Black youth development, especially for those of low income. Their age-appropriate joy of life and insouciance must be tempered by caution and vigilance given the racist and impoverished communities in which they live. Some are able, with adequate protection and nurturance from family and community, to sculpt a hybrid self that is savvy, resilient and creative around self-making. Such a supported and protected self is also impactful on the larger world. These states exist in tension with a self-regulatory capacity to avoid dangerous regressions in expressing the rage at their cultural oppressions or the temptations of mindless consumption in pursuit of pleasure. They draw on inter and intra-generational legacies that speak to managing and sometimes re-signifying trauma narratives as protective and inspirational. Such Black self-worth by youth fashions hybrid, caring and innovative selves.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47624214","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":"Between Dependency and Addiction","authors":"José Alberto Zusman","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present paper suggests the existence of two axes of human development: the axis of dependence, associated with human connectedness and the axis of addiction, associated with using inanimate objects to fulfill one’s needs. A crucial role of the analyst who treats people with addictions is to promote movement toward the axis of dependence. These ideas are illustrated in reports of psychoanalysis with two very disturbed patients.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"280 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41348971","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 Impact of Internet Pornography on Male Adolescent Mental Organization","authors":"A. Sugarman","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859299","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Internet pornography should not be automatically considered deleterious to adolescent development just as no one environmental factor is ever pathogenic. Nonetheless, it should not be considered as harmless as Playboy was to the Boomer generation during their adolescence. There are a variety of factors involved in its being available through the internet that can promote omnipotence, undermine the capacity for symbolization, and lead some adolescents to relate to others only as part objects. These possibilities become more likely when the family structure promotes grandiosity and is sexually overstimulating. In such instances, latency is disrupted so that the impending adolescent arrives at that developmental stage without the requisite capacities to successfully manage its challenges. Vignettes from a case of one such adolescent boy are offered to demonstrate how internet pornography left him unable to internalize the various regulatory functions required to transition to early adulthood.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"174 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41456666","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 - Analytic Work in the Pandemic","authors":"Denia M. Barrett, Jill M. Miller","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859285","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent in March 2020, questions about the role teletherapy could play in mental health treatments and psychoanalysis of children and adolescents suddenly moved from the hypothetical – can it work? – to the essential – how will it work? The two papers in this section provide an early snapshot showing challenges and possibilities brought about by the necessity of moving to distance technologies to preserve and protect analytic work despite the global crisis.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"16 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45712493","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":"Connecting with Children and Adolescents and Deepening Psychoanalytic Treatment: Creative Possibilities for In-Session Use of Digital Media and Devices","authors":"Roderick Hall","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Historically, child psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-oriented child therapists have used games, toys, and art materials creatively to engage their patients, facilitate connection, and deepen treatment. Over the past two decades, screens and digital devices have become increasingly pervasive in the play and lives of children and adolescents. Although there are some well-founded concerns about the potential negative effects of screens and digital devices on child development, I take the position that the child analyst’s attitude toward electronic devices needs to shift from whether to use them in treatment to how to use them. In this article, I offer a series of case examples showing how screens and digital devices can be used in-session in productive ways akin to how child analysts have always used their creativity to engage with their patients.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"325 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42751465","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":"Useful Untruths: A Plea for the Necessity of Pluralism in Child Analysis","authors":"C. Lament","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The late nineteenth century philosopher Hans Vaihinger and the preeminent contemporary philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah contend that in order to see a more complete picture of the world, we need a plurality of pictures with which to view it, not just one. This truth comes with epistemological burdens and with the inconvenient fact that the human mind is unable to juggle more than one picture or theory simultaneously. Thus, psychoanalytic clinicians tend to select one theory as a guide when treating patients. In this paper, I will offer ways to think about this conundrum as it appears in the child psychoanalytic setting and whether it is possible to shift from one’s usual theoretical point of view to include alternate theoretical perspectives – and thus, to gain a more complete “truth”, as Vaihinger and Appiah suggest we should aspire to – as the clinical situation allows.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"105 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47571280","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 Rapid Adjustment to Tele-analysis and Therapy Due to COVID-19","authors":"D. Prezant","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2020.1859288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859288","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a need to be physically distant from our patients while we were all experiencing a massive life-threatening change in our lives. Analysts and therapists had to stop seeing patients in-person. The overnight shift to teletreatment required many adjustments. This was particularly difficult for child analysis. Exploring these changes allows us to further our understanding of the differences between child and adult analysis as well as to better understand what analysis is.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"74 1","pages":"18 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00797308.2020.1859288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48464210","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":"74 1","pages":"209 - 226"},"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":"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":"74 1","pages":"308 - 324"},"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}