Each chapter of the book addresses an issue or area of professional experience. 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. Describes therapeutic interventions directed toward both children and parents.

Each chapter of the book addresses an issue or area of professional experience. 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. Describes therapeutic interventions directed toward both children and parents.

Secret Passages provides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the psychoanalytic process. Offering a uniquely global perspective, Bolognini considers the different trends in contemporary psychoanalysis, charting a course between the innovative and traditional. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include: * plurality and complexity in the internal world * the complex nature of psychoanalytic empathy * from the transpsychic to the interpsychic Drawing on vivid clinical examples throughout, Secret Passages will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts, in particular those with an interest in gaining a more global theoretical perspective.

Secret Passages provides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the psychoanalytic process. Offering a uniquely global perspective, Bolognini considers the different trends in contemporary psychoanalysis, charting a course between the innovative and traditional. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include: * plurality and complexity in the internal world * the complex nature of psychoanalytic empathy * from the transpsychic to the interpsychic Drawing on vivid clinical examples throughout, Secret Passages will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts, in particular those with an interest in gaining a more global theoretical perspective.