Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work

Editor : Caroline Sehon

Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 288
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98433
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800134416
  • ISBN 10 : 180013441X

Table of Contents


List of illustrations
Permissions
About the editor and contributors
Editor’s note and acknowledgements

Part I: Early childhood
1. What child patients teach us about analytic technique
Caroline M. Sehon (USA)

2. Play, containment, and insights from child analysis
Caroline M. Sehon (USA) with integrated commentary from Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

3. Transference–countertransference, nonverbal communication, and interpretation in child analysis: Its relevance for adult analysis
Virginia Ungar (Argentina) with integrated commentary from Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

4. Learning from a hemophiliac boy
Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

Commentary
Caroline M. Sehon (USA)

Part II: Middle childhood
5. Concurrent analytic work with an out-of-control child and his parents
Justine Kalas Reeves (USA)

Commentaries
Mary T. Brady (USA)
David E. Scharff (USA)

6. Navigating infantile anxieties in a traumatized child and family
Ana Maria Barroso (Mexico)

Commentaries
Talia Hatzor (USA)
Daniel W. Prezant (USA)

7. Analytic treatment of an obsessional ten-year-old girl
David E. Scharff (USA)

Commentaries
Theodore J. Jacobs (USA)
Rex McGehee (USA)

Part III: Adolescence
8. Countertransference in child analytic work: Piecing together a fractured mind
Caroline M. Sehon (USA) with commentary from Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

9. A two-systems treatment of a late adolescent
Kerry Kelly Novick (USA)

Commentary
Jack Novick (USA)

Part IV: Adulthood
Introduction to Chapter 10: The experience of infant observation and its relevance to adult analysis
Jeanne Magagna (UK)

10. Tentacles of the past: A dream of archaic dependency
Caroline M. Sehon (USA)

Commentaries
Jeanne Magagna (UK)
Daniel W. Prezant (USA)

11. Refinding the ghosts in the nursery: The value of child analysis for adult psychoanalytic treatment
Caroline M. Sehon (USA) with integrated commentary from Jill Savege Scharff (USA)

Index

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