Being Alive: Building on the work of Anne Alvarez

Editor : Judith Edwards

Being Alive: Building on the work of Anne Alvarez

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2001
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Autism and Aspergers
  • Catalogue No : 16037
  • ISBN 13 : 9781583911310
  • ISBN 10 : 1583911316

Table of Contents


Part I - Mainly Theoretical
1. Bridging the Atlantic for Psychoanalysis: An Appreciation of the Contributions of Anne Alvarez
2. Changing Ideas of Change: The Dual Components of Therapeutic Action.
3. A Contribution to a Technical Frame of Reference.
4. Bisexual Qualities of the Psychic Envelope
5. Neurobiology, Developmental Psychology and Psychoanalysis: Convergent Findings on the Subject of Projective Identification.


Part II - Mainly Clinical
6. 'Think Outside, Not Insider': Hearability and Intensity in Work With Deprived Children
7. From Freezing to Thawing: Working Towards the Depressive Position in Long-term Psychotherapy with Autistic Patients
8. Deficits in the Object and Failures in Containment
9. Thoughts about the Concepts of Cognitive Development, Reparation and the 'Manic Position': Two Clinical Examples
10. The Sense of Abundance in Relation to Technique
11. Liking Liking Doing
12. First Love Unfolding: Developmental and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on First Relationships and Their Significance in Clinical Work
13. Glimpses of What Might Have Been: An Autistic Boy's Struggle to Have a Mind
14. On Temporal Shapes: The Internalisation of Rhythmical Aspects of Reality and its Relation to Basic Trust.

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