ABSTRACT
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne and draws upon her considerable experience in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
On Children Who Privilege the Body will be of considerable interest and use to child psychotherapists, social workers and all other mental health professionals working with children and adolescents in a range of settings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|26 pages
Setting the scene
chapter 2|16 pages
The Independent position in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents
Roots and implications
1
part II|110 pages
Children, activity and the body
chapter 4|17 pages
‘Gonnae no’ dae that!’
The internal and external worlds of the delinquent adolescent
1
chapter 6|15 pages
Entertaining the body in mind
Thoughts on incest, the body, sexuality and the self
1
chapter 7|15 pages
Rhythm, blues, affirmation and enactment
It’s tough soloing without a rhythm section
1
chapter 8|17 pages
Oedipal aspirations and phallic fears
On fetishism in childhood and young adulthood
1
part III|31 pages
An Independent upbringing
chapter 11|16 pages
Towards a voice of one’s own
Reflections on technique, training and the trousers of time
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