Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-17201-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital presents the experiences of a psychoanalyst working within a hospital paediatric department.

It explores the possibilities for applying psychoanalytic theory when working with children in hospital and how it can be extended to include parents, caregivers, health care staff and volunteers. Each chapter of the book addresses an issue or area of professional experience that presented Franco D’Alberton with clinical or technical questions, outlining the core concern and then exploring his attempt to provide answers to these questions. This volume presents many possible applications of psychoanalytic theory in a paediatric hospital, encompassing issues encountered by health care staff and volunteers as well as by parents and their hospitalized children, such as physical pain, meetings and information sharing and group settings. It also describes therapeutic interventions directed towards both children and parents.

This book will be key reading for child and adolescent psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinical psychologists in practice and in training. It will also interest clinicians seeking to understand how psychoanalytic work can be applied in hospital and health care settings.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Alberton, Franco

Weitere Mitwirkende

Atkinson, Gina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Basic Therapeutic Factor 2. Neonates, Pain, and Memory 3. The Different Times of Trauma and Its Intergenerational Transmission 4. Communicating the Diagnosis: The Fine Line Between Pain and Trauma 5. Child Psychoanalysis 6. A Child Psychoanalytic Treatment: The Irish Sky 7. Therapeutic Consultations with Parents of Young Children 8. Parent-child Consultations: Addiction to Liquids 9. Early Adolescence and Somatic Functional Disturbances 10. Variations of Sexual Differentiation: Disorders of Sex Development 11. Group Therapy with Parents, Children, and Adolescents 12. Anxiety Management Groups for Staff Members 13. Group Sessions with Volunteers: On Books and Reading in the Hospital Concluding Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Franco D’Alberton is a child and adolescent psychoanalyst, and a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association.