The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 61 (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Se)

360 Pages·2007·1.5 MB·English

by  Robert A. King M.D., Dr. Peter B. Neubauer M.D., Dr. Samuel Abrams M.D., A. Scott Dowling M.D.

The
Psychoanalytic
Study
of the Child
VOLUME SIXTY-ONE
Founding Editors
ANNA FREUD, LL.D., D.SC.
HEINZ HARTMANN, M.D.
ERNST KRIS, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
ROBERT A. KING, M.D.
Editors
PETER B. NEUBAUER, M.D.
SAMUEL ABRAMS, M.D.
A. SCOTT DOWLING, M.D.
ROBERT A. KING, M.D.
Editorial Board
Samuel Abrams, M.D. Jill M. Miller, Ph.D.
Paul M. Brinich, Ph.D. Peter B. Neubauer, M.D.
A. Scott Dowling, M.D. Wendy Olesker, Ph.D.
Robert A. King, M.D. Samuel Ritvo, M.D.
Anton O. Kris, M.D. Robert L. Tyson, M.D.
Steven Marans, Ph.D. Fred R. Volkmar, M.D.
Linda C. Mayes, M.D. Judith A. Yanof, M.D.
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The
Psychoanalytic
Study
of the Child
VOLUME SIXTY-ONE
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
2006
Copyright © 2006 by Robert A. King, Peter B. Neubauer, Samuel Abrams,
and A. Scott Dowling.
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Contents
CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Ruth K. Karush
The Vicissitudes of Aggression in a Toddler: A Clinical
Contribution 3
Jill C. Herbert
The Analytic Pair in Action—Finding the Missing
Mental Life: An Intersubjective Approach 20
Lenore C. Terr, Joseph H. Beitchman,
Kenneth Braslow, Geri Fox, Aubrey Metcalf,
Maria Pease, Lynn Ponton, William Sack,
and Saul Wasserman
Children’s Turn-Arounds in Psychotherapy:
The Doctor’s Gesture 56
Landrum Tucker, Jr.
The Grandparent Syndrome: A Case Study 82
THE CHILD ANALYST AT WORK
Rachel G. Seidel
Anna, Leaving Home—An Adolescent Girl’s Journey 101
Commentaries on Rachel G. Seidel’s “Anna, Leaving
Home—An Adolescent Girl’s Journey”:
Charles E. Parks 123
Samuel Abrams 135
Judith A. Yanof 139
E. Kirsten Dahl 145
THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Mitchel Becker and Boaz Shalgi
The Dialectic Between Self-Determination and
Intersubjectivity in Creating the Experience of Self 155
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Ilan Harpaz-Rotem and Anni Bergman
On an Evolving Theory of Attachment:
Rapprochement—Theory of a Developing Mind 170
Fred Pine
A Note on Some Microprocesses of Identification 190
RESEARCH STUDIES
Stuart T. Hauser, Eve Golden, and Joseph P. Allen
Albert J. Solnit Award paper:
Narrative in the Study of Resilience 205
Olivia Lempen and Nick Midgley
Exploring the Role of Children’s Dreams in
Psychoanalytic Practice Today: A Pilot Study 228
Miri Keren, Adi Ron-Miara, Ruth Feldman,
and Samuel Tyano
Some Reflections on Infancy-Onset Trichotillomania 254
APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS
Frederick C. Miller
Successful Mourning: Maternal Loss and Grieving
by Proxy in Fly Away Home 275
Paul Schwaber
For Better and For Worst: Romeo and Juliet 294
Matthew Isaac Cohen and Phyllis M. Cohen
Psychopathic Characters on the Stage of
Stephen Sondheim 308
Daniel Jacobs
Blanche, Stella, Tennessee and Rose: The Sibling
Relationship in A Streetcar Named Desire 320
Eugene Mahon
The Invention of Purgatory: A Note on the
Historical Pedigree of the Superego 334
Index 345
CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
The Vicissitudes of Aggression
in a Toddler
A Clinical Contribution
RUTH K. KARUSH, M.D.
Clinical material from the analyses of young children may be particu-
larly useful in understanding the vicissitudes of the aggressive drive.
In this paper, the psychoanalytic work with Teddy, a boy with aggres-
sive and angry behavior, is presented to illustrate several important,
intertwining and determining factors involved in the expression of his
aggressive drive. These include traumatic events, his relationship with
his parents and his dread of the strength of his instincts. When the
child’s experience includes the lack of external control of his impulses,
he may be more predisposed to violent behavior. The importance of the
stage of ego development at the time of trauma is also emphasized.
teddy, an angelic-looking child, was first brought to my of-
fice at the age of 2 years and 7 months because of his “angry, abusive
behavior toward friends and adults.” The director of his nursery
school had suggested the consultation because she was alarmed by
his “aggressive fantasies.” He would tell his teacher that he was going
to kill her, and he would threaten to throw his classmates out the win-
dow. According to his mother, he didn’t like being told what to do
and would counter demands with such retorts as, “You’re stupid. I
don’t like you.” Teddy was a slight, fragile-looking, blond, blue-eyed
Associate Dean of Education for Child Analysis; Training Analyst; Adult, Child and
Adolescent Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
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