Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children: The Broken Piano (The Lacanian Clinical Field) (The Lacanian Clinical Field)

In a groundbreaking integration of the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Tustin, Catherine Mathelin reveals how a child's symptoms can be a striking reflection of its parents' unresolved conflicts. She shows how her patients' art, much of it reproduced here, can communicate both initial anguish and progress in treatment, and draws on her experience of working on a neonatal unit to argue compellingly that a child's mental health can be endangered even before birth. "This is a book hard to put down, filled with the most fascinating brief case vignettes of parents and children who live in worlds disconnected from each other, hoping for experts to heal their suffering." -Anni Bergman, coauthor of The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview / Judith Feher Gurewich -- Introduction / Steven L. Ablon, M.d. -- The First Meeting With The Analyst -- The First Meeting With The Analyst, Thirty Years Later -- Felicien And The Intellectual Women -- Aurore And Christine, Or The Child Waiting Offstage -- Arthur And The Secret Of The Sea Elephants -- Margot And The Magic Skin Eruptions -- Paul: How Much Does A Child Cost? -- Samira: The Child As Symptom, Or The Child's Symptom? -- Valentin And His Lion -- Violette, Or The Drama Of Jealousy -- Lolita, The Abnormal Child -- Adrien, The Tiger, And The Didy -- From The Pediatrician To The Psychoanalyst: Fix This Child -- Listening To Carla's Heart -- Anna -- Alexandre, Or The Broken Piano -- From The First Session To The Analytic Treatment -- Xenophon, Or The Name-crosses -- Alice, Or The Black Sun Of Phobia -- Jeremy, Or The Clown Theater -- The Clever Baby -- A Look At The Baby Of Today -- Cannelle And Gingerbread: A Child Who Looks Good Enough To Eat -- An Analyst On A Neonatal Unit: A Different Experience. Catherine Mathelin ; Translated By Susan Fairfield ; Notes By Judith Feher Gurewich. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [183]-186) And Index.