Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive and clinically grounded account of psychodynamic treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry. Bringing together leading international contributors, it offers a developmentally structured approach spanning the entire trajectory from perinatality and infancy to childhood and adolescence.
Combining theoretical depth with clinical applicability, the chapters include detailed case material and practical guidance across a wide range of clinical situations, including mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, eating disorders, and borderline functioning. Particular attention is given to contemporary challenges such as the psychodynamic dimensions of psychopharmacology and transcultural clinical practice.
A distinctive feature of this volume is its integration of psychodynamic thinking within multidisciplinary and institutional settings, addressing therapeutic mediations, teamwork, supervision, and preventive approaches. By articulating a coherent and developmentally informed framework, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of psychodynamic perspectives in modern psychiatric practice.
This volume will be an essential resource for clinicians, trainees, and researchers seeking to integrate psychodynamic approaches into the care of children, adolescents, and their families.
Contents
Foreword 1.- Foreword 2.- Introduction.- List of contributors.- Part I: General aspects.- 1. Psychoanalysis and development.- 2. What is Psychodynamic?.- 3. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Systems.- Part II: Cross-cutting aspects.- 4. The notion of institutional work in child and adolescent psychiatry: Theoretical bases and presentation of institutional psychotherapy.- 5. A Psychodynamic Approach to Therapeutic Mediations in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- 6. Working with parents.- Part III: Perinatality and infancy.- 7. Parenthood-Centered Psychotherapy for Perinatal Depression and Parent-Infant Bond: A Psychodynamic Approach.- 8. An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Parents-Infant Psychotherapy.- 9. The Hurrier I Go, the Behinder I get: Psychoanalytic Focal Therapy in Early Childhood.- 10. Group Parent-Infant Psychotherapy.- 11. Therapeutic Applications of Infant Observation.- 12. Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy in Cases with Severe Parental Psychopathology Linked to Trauma.- Part IV: Childhood.- 13. Individual child psychotherapy: Concepts and processes.- 14. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Internalizing Disorders in Childhood.- 15. Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Disruptive (Externalizing) Disorders: A Psychodynamic Approach.- 16. Play and Playfulness at the Heart of Recovery: A Three-Track Treatment Approach for Children with Complex Trauma.- 17. Group psychotherapy with latency-age children.- Part V. Adolescence.- 18. Individual Adolescent Psychotherapy: Concepts and Processes.- 19. The Effects of Transference Interventions in Psychodynamic Treatment of Adolescents with Depression.- 20. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Youth with Anxiety Disorders.- 21. Borderline Functioning in Adolescence.- 22. Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders in Youth: A Psychodynamic Hospital-Based Experience.- 23. Individual Psychoanalytic Psychodrama for Adolescents.- Part VI: Special topics.- 24. Revisiting Conversion and Functional Symptoms in Childhood: Psychoanalytic Insights and Contemporary Models for treatment.- 25. Psychodynamic Treatments of Traumatic Stress Disorders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- 26. Psychoanalytic family therapy.- 27. Body-Mind Therapies.- 28. Transcultural Psychotherapy.- 29. The Supervision of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: A Third-Party Listening?.- Part VII. Perspectives.- 30. Making Room for Early Psychotherapy in Autism.- 31. Integrative Reflections on Psychotropic Prescribing in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- 32. Thinking psychoanalytically about transgender identification in young people.- 33. Psychodynamically-informed prevention in child and adolescent mental health.- Part VIII. Conclusions.- 34. Associating Psychodynamic and Other Approaches into Care.- 35. Present and Future of Psychodynamic Therapeutic Research.- Postface.
