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Lacanian Psychotherapy With Children

The Broken Piano

Part of Lacanian Clinical Field

Author Catherine Mathelin
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On sale Jan 17, 1999 | 224 Pages | 978-1-892746-01-6
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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
Catherine Mathelin, a psychoanalyst and psychologist, works in the child psychiatry and neonatology units of the Saint-Denis Hospitals. She was a member of Lacan's Ecole Freudienne from 1974 until its dissolution, and the Centre de formation et de recheres psychanalytiques (Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) until the founding by Maud Mannoni of Espace Analytique, of which she is currently a member. View titles by Catherine Mathelin

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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

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Catherine Mathelin, a psychoanalyst and psychologist, works in the child psychiatry and neonatology units of the Saint-Denis Hospitals. She was a member of Lacan's Ecole Freudienne from 1974 until its dissolution, and the Centre de formation et de recheres psychanalytiques (Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) until the founding by Maud Mannoni of Espace Analytique, of which she is currently a member. View titles by Catherine Mathelin

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