The Elusive Child

233 Pages·2004·56.831 MB·English

by  Lesley Caldwell

THE ELUSIVE
CHILD
Edited by LESLEY CALDWELL
KARNAC
THE ELUSIVE CHILD
Winnicott Studies Monograph Series
The Person Who Is Me:
Contemporary Perspectives on the True and False Self
edited by Val Richards
Fathers, Families, and the Outside World
edited by Val Richards
Andre Green at The Squiggle Foundation
edited by jan Abram
Art, Creativity, Living
edited by Lesley Caldwell
The Squiggle Foundation is a registered charity
set up in 1981 to study and cultivate the tradition
of D. W. Winnicott. For further information, contact
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Winnicott Studies Monograph Series
THE ELUSIVE CHILD
edited by
Lesley Caldwell
KARNAC
for
The Squiggle Foundation
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Inf{oduction © 2002 Lesley Cal<lwel); <;hapter 1 © 2002 Pierre Drapeau;
chapter 2 © 2002 Margaret Tonnesmann; chapter 3 © ·2002 Abe Brafman;
chapter 4 © 2002 catherine Mathclin; ch.pld 5 © 2002 Monica Lanyado;
chapter 6 © 2002 Angela loyce; chapter 7 © 2002 Alain Vanier;
chapter 8 © 2002 Richard Frankel,; chapJer 9 © -2002 .Amal Treachef;
chapter 10 © 2002 Nichol;>s Spice
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CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS vii
Introduction
Lesley Caldwell 1
CHAPTER ONE
From Freud to Winnicott: an encounter between mythical
children
Pierre Drapeau 15
CHAPTER TWO
Early emotional development: Ferenczi to Winnicott
Margret Tonnesmann 45
CHAPTER THREE
Infant observation: what do you see?
Abe BraJman 59
CHAPTER FOUR
Defects of inscription in language: Anne and Anna
Catherine Nfathelin 71
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CHAPTER FIVE
Creating transitions in the lives of children suffering from
"multiple traumatic loss"
Monica Lanyado 93
CHAPTER SIX
Prince Blackthorn and the Wizard: fantasying and thinking
in the psychoanalysis of a ten-year-old boy
Angela Joyce 113
CHAPTER SEVEN
Some remarks on adolescence with Winnicott and Lacan
Alain Vanier 133
CHAPTER EIGHT
A Winnicottian view of an American tragedy
Richard Frankel 153
CHAPTER NINE
"I like my life, I just like my life": narratives of children
of latency years
Amal Treacher 177
CHAPTER TEN
Winnicott and music
N iclwlas Spice 193
REFERENCES 205
INDEX 215
CONTRIBUTORS
Dr A H BRAFMAN is a psychoanalyst of adults and children. He
worked in the NHS as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He has
been involved in teaching progranunes for psychotherapists and he
is now an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Psychotherapy Depart-
ment of University College Hospital. Dr Brafman has run seminars
on Infant Observation and his work seeing children and parents
together has now been published by Karnac as Untying the Knot.
LESLEY CALDWELL, PhD is the Director of the Squiggle Foundation
and the editor of Winnicotl Studies. She is an associate member of the
Lincoln Clinic and Institute, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in
private practice and a University lecturer. She is writing a book on
family constellations ln Italian cinema.
JENNY DAVIDS is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and a
member of the British Association of Psychotherapists. She teaches
and supervises at the Anna Freud Centre and she has a long-term
interest in adoption and fostering.
PIERRE DRAPEAU is a psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst, a
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member of the Societe Psychanalytique de Montreal and of the
Canadian Psychoanalytical Society, a member of the Institut
Psychanalytique de Montreal and of the Canadian Psychoanalytical
Institute, a child psychiatrist at the H6pital Ste Justine, Montreal,
and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal.
RICHARD FRANKEL is a psychotherapist in priva te practice in Boston,
USA. He is the author of The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and
Winnicottian Perspectives (Routledge, 1998) and is completing his
PhD at the University of Essex.
ANGELA JOYCE worked as a psychiatric social worker in the ILEA
Child Guidance Service before training with the Guild of
Psychotherapists. After having children, she trained as an adult
psychoanalyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Society and then in
child analysis at the Anna Freud Centre. She works in private
practice and in the Parent Infant Project (infant mental health) at the
AFC.
MONICA LANYADO helped found the Child and Adolescent Psycho-
therapy training in Scotland. She is a training supervisor at the
British Association of Psychotherapy, and she consults to thera-
peutic communities in the Peper Harrow Foundation. She has a
special interest in children suffering from multiple traumatic loss
and carried out clinical research on sexually abusive behaviour in
young adolescent boys at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has
published widely, and is former co-editor of the Journal of Child
Psychotherapy. With Anne Horne she is joint editor of the Handbook of
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches
(Routledge, 1999). She works in private practice.
CATHERINE MATHELIN, PhD, is a training analyst of Espace Analytique.
She is the author of Le sourire de la joconde (Denoel), Qu'est ce qu'on a
a
fait Freud pour avoir des enfants pareils (Denoel), Raisins verts et dents
agactes (Denoel). The latter is published by Other Press as Lacanian
Psychotherapy with Children (2001). She has written the prefaces for
the French editions of the Tavistock series~ "Comprendre votre
a
enfant de la naissance l'adolescence", ilLes Guides du Centre
Tavistock", Albin Michel.
CONTRIBUTORS ix
NIQfOLAS SPICE contributes essays on music and literature to the
London Review of Books, where he has been publisher since 1982. He
is currently working on a short book about the Polish American
pianist Artur Balsam.
MARGRET TONNESMANN MD, is a psychoanalyst of the British Psycho-
Analytical Society, and a member of the British Association of
Psychotherapists. She was a consultant psychotherapist (now
retired) in the NHS and she is a lecturer and seminar leader on
Freud and object-relations theorists to various Institutions in
London, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. She is in private
practice.
AMAL TREACHER, PhD is a lecturer in the Centre for Psychosocial
Studies at Birkbeck College. She has written on ethnicity, children
and the family romance, and adoption.
ALAIN v ANJER is a practising psychoanalyst and President of Espace
Analytique (France). He has doctorates in medicine, with a speciali-
zation in psychiatry, and in psychopathology and psychoanalysis.
He is now Professor of Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis at the
University of Paris VII. One of his books, Lacan, has been translated
into English (New York: Other Press, 2000).