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Arminda Aberastury’s Theory and Technique of Child Analysis

Editor : Jill Savege Scharff, Editor : Lea Sofer de Setton

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Editors’ note and acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
Foreword by Virginia Ungar
Arminda Aberastury, my mother: A personal reminiscence by Joaquín Pichon-Rivière
Author’s preliminary note
Author’s prologue

Part I – History of psychoanalytic technique
1. Analysis of the phobia of a five-year-old boy
Commentary by David E. Scharff (USA)

2. Birth of a technique
Commentary by Lea Sofer de Setton (Panama)

3. Two streams in child psychoanalysis: Anna Freud and Melanie Klein
Commentary by Judith Edwards (UK)

4. The development of psychoanalysis for children in Argentina
Commentary by Virginia Ungar (Argentina)

Part II – Technique in child analytic practice
5. Initial interview with the parents
Commentary by Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski (Argentina and USA)

6. The office, the play material, the individual drawer, and technical problems arising from daily management
Commentary by Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

7. The meaning of the first hour of play
Commentary by Alan Sugarman (USA)

8. Subsequent work with parents
Commentary by Minnie Dastur (India)

Part III – Clinical narratives of child analysis
9. Developmental delay: Clinical narratives of two analyses
Commentary by Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

10. Focus on three clinical reenactments of birth trauma
Commentary by Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

Part IV – New perspectives on treatment and prevention of infantile neurosis
11. The prophylactic effect of mothers’ counseling groups and their relation to psychoanalysis of children
Commentary by Elizabeth Palacios (Spain)

12. Psychoanalytic perspectives on infant development
Commentary by Jeanne Magagna (UK)

Bibliography
References
Index