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Freud's psychoanalysis and its original representative in the UK,
the British Psychoanalytic Society, have gone through unavoidable
developments over the decades of their existence. We now have
innumerable organizations training professionals in very diverse
forms of psychodynamic therapies and it can be difficult to
recognize the original sources of their theories and practices.
This multiplication of trainings has led to an ever-increasing
number of theoretical postulates that have come to be adopted as
dogmas. Examples are transference and counter-transference,
negative impulses, separation anxiety, the importance of the
setting and the importance given to the patient's past and present
life outside the consulting room. The present application of the
new definitions of old concepts has led to a concept of therapy
where the analyst/therapist/counselor comes to be seen as the
central figure in the patient's life and which creates and fosters
a situation of dependence on the availability of the professional.
The papers in this book consider some of these issues and stress
the importance of considering analysis/therapy/counseling as means
of enabling the patient to lead an independent life."
This book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting
complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional
conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help
him or her to overcome. The parents' interpretation of the child's
symptoms cannot but be influenced by their own previous life
experiences and if
In a series of papers, the author addresses the needs of students,
patients, and practitioners of psychodynamic therapies. The work of
these professionals with children and with adults is discussed from
a pragmatic point of view, stressing the importance of recognizing
the needs and capacities of each individual patient. At the same
time, the autho
This book is based on common questions that parents have about
their children and their relationships with the world at large.
Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and
as a father), Dr Brafman offers his thoughts on widespread problems
faced by parents in an innovative way: he focuses on how the child
perceives the situat
Untying The Knot sets out to present a clinical approach to cases
where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which
the parents are intimately involved in the therapeutic
situation.Three fundamental principles inform the work: firstly,
that early experience influences present lives; secondly, that
unconscious feelings and f
If a person is struggling with feeling that involve pain or
anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting
that person's capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the
person's age, they very often have no access to the words that
might convey their internal conflicts. People interacting with that
person may believe he is deliberately refusing to express what
affects him, but it is certainly true that most times this is not
the case. When dealing with children, these difficulties are even
more acute. However, children often express in their drawings
elements of the conflicts they are experiencing in themselves and
the world in which they live. The author applied these findings in
his work - not only with children and adolescents, but at times
also with adults.This fascinating book arose from the discovery
that single drawings could at times represent only a part of an
underlying emotional experience that "completed" its expression in
another picture drawn after that first one.
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's
development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and
we no longer speak of a baby or a little child; instead, we refer
to the boy or the girl. Over the next five years, as his horizons
become wider and his experiences outside the home increase
exponentially, he seems to become more reserved; more difficult to
approach and share things with. Sometimes, ordinary questions are
ignored or responded to with some apparently unrelated answer.
Occasionally, the child will move away even while someone is
speaking to him. This is a child trying to make sense of his new
experiences, adapting to new people and places, while preserving
his link to his earlier environment.Adults can feel frustrated by
this behaviour and impatient, but when moved to protest, tend to
use words of exasperation rather than plain anger. There exists an
unspoken understanding that the child needs time to adjust to his
new pattern of life. However, not all over-fives are like this and
we do find some who seem to blend into the new pattern of life and
carry on with their home life as if no major change had taken
place.
This book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting
complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional
conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help
him or her to overcome. The parents' interpretation of the child's
symptoms cannot but be influenced by their own previous life
experiences and if their eventual response does not meet the
child's anxiety, the child feels misunderstood and the physical
complaint remains unchanged. When seeing child and parents in a
consultation, an attempt is made to discover the unconscious
fantasy that underlies the presenting physical complaint, and also
to investigate what led the parents to approach their child in the
particular manner that, in practice, perpetuated the symptom. The
proposal is put forward that the symptom can be seen as a language,
a manner of expressing an underlying emotional anxiety. Once the
therapist formulates this message in words the child can
understand, and helps the parents to understand their response to
the child, it becomes possible for the parents to approach the
child in a more effective manner - and the symptom disappears.
If a person is struggling with feelings that involve pain or
anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting
that person s capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the
person s age, they very often have no access to the words that
might convey their internal conflicts. People interacting with that
person may believe he is deliberately refusing to express what
affects him, but it is certainly true that most times this is not
the case. When dealing with children, these difficulties are even
more acute. Many years ago it was found that children often
expressed in their drawings elements of the conflicts they were
experiencing of themselves and the world in which they lived. The
author followed this practice in his work not only with children
and adolescents, but at times also with adults.This fascinating
book arose from his discovery that single drawings could at times
represent only a part of an underlying emotional experience that
"completed" its expression in another picture drawn after that
first one. At first, it seemed a mere coincidence, but time came to
show him that this was a strategy similar to what we find in
ordinary verbal language and that drawings clearly constituted a
language of their own. He therefore subjected the phenomenon he now
found to further investigation. The author s hope is that his
subsequent findings may prove to be a valuable clinical tool for
colleagues in their work. This research should give closer and more
detailed understanding of this splitting mechanism, so well known
in actual words, but apparently not previously describe in
drawings."
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's
development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and
we no longer speak of a baby or a little child; instead, we refer
to the boy or the girl. Over the next five years, as his horizons
become wider and his experiences outside the home increase
exponentially, he seems to become more reserved; more difficult to
approach and share things with. Sometimes, ordinary questions are
ignored or responded to with some apparently unrelated answer.
Occasionally, the child will move away even while someone is
speaking to him. This is a child trying to make sense of his new
experiences, adapting to new people and places, while preserving
his link to his earlier environment.Adults can feel frustrated by
this behavior and impatient, but when moved to protest, tend to use
words of exasperation rather than plain anger. There exists an
unspoken understanding that the child needs time to adjust to his
new pattern of life. However, not all over-fives are like this and
we do find some who seem to blend into the new pattern of life and
carry on with their home life as if no major change had taken
place.
This book is based on questions that all parents have about their
children and that they might want to ask a childcare professional,
if they were given the chance. Children s relationships with their
parents, their relationship with siblings and outside world are
discussed in detail as well as questions on what is normal
behaviour and when help should be sought. There are no set rules
for raising children but certain situations might be better
resolved after learning about other similar cases and hearing a
professional s advice. Drawing from his extensive experience as a
child psychoanalyst (and a father), Dr. Brafman offers his thoughts
on some most common problems faced when raising children. Questions
tackled in the book include: Is it possible to "baby" your child
too much? How important is "quality time"? When does "making
allowances" for a child become "spoiling" or
"inappropriate"?Discipline -- how to --without physical means.When
is a child "too naughty?"How to deal with sibling rivalry -- when
is it normal? When does it become inappropriate? How to be fair to
both kids?My child has been accused of bullying, what should I
do?How do marital conflicts affect the way parents relate to their
child?"There are so many books available telling parents how to
bring up their children that the question arises: why another one?
I want to believe that the present text offers two features that
put it in a small minority of the books found in the bookstores.
First, it tries to focus on situations as perceived by the child,
rather than the usual observer s view of the child s behaviour.
Second, it offers only a minimal number of answers. Instead, I have
tried to discuss each question in such a way as to open up various
possible solutions and leaving the final choice to the parents.
This is because I have come to believe that finding an answer to a
problem is much easier when one understands what relevant issues
are involved. Because no two children are completely equal and the
circumstances in which parents bring up each child are always
changing, I think that an outsider can only give valid advice if he
actually meets that particular set of parents and children. My
intention, therefore, was to stimulate thought, rather than offer
answers that, however plausible, might be of no actual relevance to
the problems of the individual reader." --From the Introduction"
Untying The Knot sets out to present a clinical approach to cases
where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which
the parents are intimately involved in the therapeutic
situation.Three fundamental principles inform the work: firstly,
that early experience influences present lives; secondly, that
unconscious feelings and fantasies are elements which shape
everyday conscious experience; and thirdly, that the interaction of
children and parents leads to patterns which become
self-perpetuating and make it virtually impossible to define what
is cause and what is effect in their relationship.The author
acknowledges the pioneering work of Donald Winnicott in the
treatment of children, emphasizing particularly his refusal to be
bound by rigid notions of treatment modalities, but instead to go
to the heart of the matter - an understanding of the child's own
confusion and pain, and then, through its elucidation and
expression, to bring relief.
Life in the Consulting Room offers a series of noteworthy vignettes
that occurred in the author's consulting room. Although the context
and objective of each consultation varied, the decision to present
them here is due to a particularly interesting feature of the
patient's life or a significant point that arose during their
interview with the author. Many of the cases have issues of
academic interest but these are not pursued here. Instead, these
accounts should be seen as portraits, "snapshots" that were
considered emotionally interesting and intellectually stimulating.
Some of these patients were in short- or long-term therapy, but
most cases were being assessed to determine whether psychotherapy
was in fact the best way of helping them. No doubt all
psychodynamic practitioners will have met some of these findings in
their practice, but the present book offers a particularly
significant collection of clinical episodes.
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