Psychic Hooks and Bolts Psychoanalytic Work With Children Under Five and Their Families

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND CHAPTER ONE The importance of infant observation in under fives` counselling 7 CHAPTER TWO Outlines of psychodynamic under fives` counselling and theoretical background 11 Theoretical influences on under fives` counselling 1. Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and Donald Winnicott 12 2. Other influential approaches: short psychodynamic psychotherapy, parent-infant psychotherapy, attachment theory and family therapist John Byng-Hall, and neurosriences 20 3. Setting and technique 32 PART II CLINICAL CASES Introduction 51 CHAPTER THREE Post-natal maternal depression 55 CHAPTER FOUR Separation difficulties and parental input 63 CHAPTER FIVE Eating problems 81 CHAPTER SIX The little girl who could not sleep, or psychic bolts 89 CHAPTER SEVEN Soiling 101 CHAPTER EIGHT Gender identity 115 CHAPTER NINE Bereavement and loss 121 CHAPTER TEN Learning disabilities 133 CHAPTER ELEVEN The borderline child and the establishment of internal reins 143 CHAPTER TWELVE Hyperactivity and Ritalin 149 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mental illness in the family 161 CHAPTER FOURTEEN The use of under fives` counselling as parental guidance with severely developmentally delayed children 171 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Under fives` counselling as a form of assessment 179 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Consultation to a nursery school 189 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Parents` line