ABSTRACT
Child analysis has occupied a special place in the history of psychoanalysis because of the challenges it poses to practitioners and the clashes it has provoked among its advocates. Since the early days in Vienna under Sigmund Freud child psychoanalysts have tried to comprehend and make comprehensible to others the psychosomatic troubles of childhood and to adapt clinical and therapeutic approaches to all the stages of development of the baby, the child, the adolescent and the young adult.
Claudine and Pierre Geissmann trace the history and development of child analysis over the last century and assess the contributions made by pioneers of the discipline, whose efforts to expand its theoretical foundations led to conflict between schools of thought, most notably to the rift between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Now taught and practised widely in Europe, the USA and South America, child and adolescent psychoanalysis is unique in the insight it gives into the psychological aspects of child development, and in the therapeutic benefits it can bring both to the child and its family.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
part I|55 pages
The day before yesterday: beginnings in Vienna (1905–20)
chapter 1|12 pages
Sigmund Freud
chapter 2|9 pages
Carl Gustav Jung: divergent views
chapter 3|5 pages
Karl Abraham: the ‘father’ of Melanie Klein
chapter 4|28 pages
Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: pioneer and most obstinate of Freud's disciples
part II|94 pages
Yesterday: two schools, three cities—Vienna, Berlin and London (1920–45)
chapter 5|29 pages
Anna Freud, the daughter: psychoanalytical education and observation
chapter 6|20 pages
Melanie Klein: early object relationships
chapter 7|13 pages
Eugenie Sokolnicka: psychoanalysis is introduced to France 1
chapter 9|12 pages
The two schools and some of the main figures
chapter 10|11 pages
‘The Controversies’ (1941–5): the inevitable confrontation in London
part III|110 pages
Today: the spread of child psychoanalysis throughout the world from 1945
chapter 11|54 pages
Britain after 1945
chapter 12|20 pages
The United States of America
chapter 13|8 pages
Argentina
chapter 14|27 pages
France
part IV|5 pages
And tomorrow?