Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst

Author(s) : Marta Badoni

Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 248
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98318
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032907741
  • ISBN 10 : 1032907746

Table of Contents


Part I - A time for noticing. Understanding
1. Misunderstandings, ills understood

Part II - Space for training. Becoming
2. Parents, children and analysts. Resources and challenges for the psychoanalytic institution
3. Processes of analytic work with children

Part III - Getting involved in the game. Resources and risks
4. Taking oneself playfully
5. Children and the psychoanalytic process
6. Parents and Their Children, and The Analyst in the Middle: Working with a Transgenerational Mandate

Part IV - The ingredients of care. Agreeable and disagreeable elements
7. A body, a story. Functions of the rescuing adult: the importance of a comma

Part V - A time for delivering. Generating
8. Betrayal and corruption. On the corruptive power of maternal love and the good use of betrayal
9. A problem at the origins: originality

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