The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood. This book, led by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), commits to shedding light on new developments in theory and practice in this area. Each chapter offers an expression of current thinking and clinical work with child and adolescent patients, as well as with their parents, families, and community. The complex contributions by brilliant and erudite scholars offer a fresh take on the existing body of thought on infancy and childhood in psychoanalysis that will challenge and enlighten readers of all backgrounds. Within these perspectives, the development of internal and external bonds is the focus, as well as a consideration of how analysts work in their time with young patients at these key moments of the life cycle. With their expertise in childhood, the contributors share complex views on the link between analysis with young children and psychoanalysis with adults, making it an essential read for child and adolescent psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Series editor foreword Gabriela Legorreta Preface Virginia Ungar and Sergio Nick Introduction Nilde Parada Franch Part I: Landscapes of Childhood and Adolescence Chapter 1: On Playfulness Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Chapter 2: The shifting boundaries of the psychic intimate spaces during childhood and adolescence, in our postmodern occidental societies Julie Augoyard Chapter 3: The Oblivious Object Mary Brady Chapter 4: Introjective processes, the work on the infantile as a mental state Mónica Cardenal Chapter 5: The interpretation of oedipal configurations in child analysis Florence Guignard Chapter 6: Secrecy in the infantile… Julieta Alejandra Paglini Part II: Considerations About Trauma and Parent Infant Analysis Chapter 7: The parental unconscious: trauma, crypts, fantasies and failures Nilde Jacob Parada Franch and Vera Regina Jardim Ribeiro Marcondes Fonseca Chapter 8: Remembering and working through, the Trauma of Paternal loss & maternal postpartum Depression: The Case of Sam Mali Mann Chapter 9: Notes on breakdown in child development, misconceptions and disorientations Emanuela Quagliata Chapter10: Repairing a fractured child and family mind Caroline Sehon Chapter 11: Cyberspace as refuge or prison – An exploration of analytic communication Majlis Winberg Salomonsson Part III : New Voices in Child Analysis Chapter 12: Autistic functioning and psychic pain? Building up possible links Mariângela Mendes de Almeida Part IV: The Present Chapter 13: Developmental impact of very early childhood on treatment and technique Kerry Kelly Novick Chapter 14: Video child psychotherapy during confinement: for better or for worse Julia-Flore Alibert Chapter 15: Working with Children and their Parents in Pandemic Times Magdalena Calvo Sánchez-Sierra, Monica Cardenal, Mariela Illán Gómez, Alicia Monserrat Femenía and Elizabeth Palacios

Nilde Parada Franch is a training analyst and child and adolescent analyst at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo. She was chair of the IPA COCAP. Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York. Member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. She is chair of the COCAP. Mónica Cardenal is a training analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, Argentina. She is a COCAP consultant and Chair of the PACE Committee. Majlis Winberg Salomonsson is a training and child psychoanalyst at the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, Stockholm, Sweden.