Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children

Abstract

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Modern Developments in Psychoanalysis. The Long Fall. Vegetable Life and Awakenings. Becoming Vertebrate. Growth of a Mind: The Function of Reclamation. Reclamation and Live Company: Normal Counterparts in the Caretaker-Infant Relationship. Making the Thought Thinkable: Perspective on Introjection and Projection. The Problem of the New Idea: Thought Disorder and Behaviour Disturbance as Forms of Cognitive Deficit. A Developmental View of 'Defence': Borderline Patients. The Necessary Angel: Idealization as a Development. Clinical Depression and Despair: Defences and Recoveries. Some Precursors of Reparation in the Hardened Destructive Child. Child Sexual Abuse: The Need to Remember and the Need to Forget. Beyond the Unpleasure Principle: Play and Symbolism. Wildest Dreams and Lies: Aspiration and Identification in Depressed Children. Autism: The Controversies. Rites and Rituals in Autism: The Use of the Counter-transference. Robbie at 30. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.