Observation and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Papers from Child Psychotherapy, 1991-2025
Paperback Engels 2026 1e druk 9781041361046Samenvatting
This book brings together some of Margaret Rustin’s finest papers in the areas of infant observation, theory, research and literature. Drawing on more than 50 years of psychoanalytic practice, the author offers a richly layered exploration of the central place of close observation and imagination in illuminating the inner worlds of children and young people.
Illustrated with vivid clinical examples, the collection engages with a broad range of themes, including the place of interpretation in child psychotherapy, the experience of shame in childhood, dreams and play in child analysis and the challenges of clinical research. A final section turns to literature and drama, tracing the vital connections between imagination and psychic life.
Essential reading for child psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and child analysts, as well as all those training as mental health professionals, this book will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the emotional dimensions of human experience.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
1. Beginning of the mind (1999)
2. Esther Bick’s legacy of infant observation at the Tavistock: Some reflections 60 years on (2009)
3. Finding an authentic voice: Observation, intuition and the use of countertransference in work with children and adolescents (2006)
4. Struggles in becoming a mother: Reflections from a clinical and observational standpoint (2005)
Section II: Theory
5. The place of interpretation in child therapy: Making things meaningful (2015)
6. Shame in childhood: Being ashamed of oneself, feeling shamed and the burden of the shame of others (2016)
7. Beyond The talion principle: The early development of a moral sense (2012)
8. Doing things differently: An appreciation of Meltzer’s contribution (2015)
9. Dreams and play in child analysis today (2012)
Section III: Training and Research
10. Observation, understanding and interpretation: The story of a supervision (1998)
11. Some reflections on clinical research in child psychotherapy (1985/2025)
12. Preserving a psychoanalytic attitude in short-term psychotherapy: The challenge of working within a research framework (2018/2024)
Section IV: Literature
13. Where is Home? An essay on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (Volume 1 of His Dark Materials) (2003/2024) (with Michael Rustin)
14. Fairy tales and children’s hopes and fears (2009/2013/2024)
15. The Myth of Narcissus and Echo: Reflections from child and adult psychotherapy (2019/2025)
16. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Meditations on marriage (2002/2024)
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