Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust
This new book, edited by Catalina Bronstein and Sara Flanders, is published by Routledge on 14 July 2023.
The book applies psychoanalytic insight to work with children and adolescents in a changing, often traumatic, world.
Each chapter considers how psychoanalysis can develop and be developed, assessing how in the modern world, psychological disturbance and psychological trauma is manifest in new, unfamiliar ways.
From new and different social and technological realities, to the internet, and new sexual discourse, each chapter explores how the analyst can hold onto fundamental psychoanalytic understandings of mental functioning, address the young patient’s or family’s need for containment, while respecting the importance of drives, the varieties of psychosexuality, and the powerful impact of anxiety on psychological development. In relation to children, these authors disclose the potential destructiveness of impingements from adults on a precious, vulnerable development. The collection features a chapter by MPDT Trustee, Simon Cregeen.
This book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as other health and educational professionals working with children and adolescents.
Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis in a Changing World: Children on the Edge is published by Routledge on 14 July 2023
ISBN 9781032106458
192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
Available in paperback, hardback and ebook formats.