Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and Climate Change
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : October 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 320
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 98291
- ISBN 13 : 9781032835822
- ISBN 10 : 1032835826
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Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by young people worldwide.
Each chapter provides a theoretical exploration of our psychically and socially damaging collective reality and offers practical support to psychoanalysts working to create safe spaces in a world that feels fundamentally unlivable for many young people. Case studies span the Ukraine and Palestine/Israel conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis and forced displacement as a result of climate catastrophe. Contributors explore the active impact of these devastating events, including the pervasive hopelessness suffered by young people deprived of agency and a viable future, through first-hand accounts of working with children and adolescents in conflict zones. Drawing on the work of Bion, Winnicott, Judith Butler and others, these essays offer hope by showing the important role that psychoanalytic work can play in restoring the capacity for psychic development, resilience and meaning making.
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Written for tumultuous times, this volume offers fresh and valuable psychoanalytic reflections on traumatized children’s play and on how wars/climate change/pandemics inflect psychic development. Breaking with psychoanalysis’s omertà around naming the genocide of Palestinian children and trans youth, Fiorella’s bold and erudite collection tracks fantasies about blown-off limbs growing back, impending disablements by climate change/pandemics, and trans children’s anxieties about being erased. It also necessarily reveals how adults fail children, children wounded not only by bombs, disease, and rising temperatures, but also by adults’ lies, greed, narcissism, and inaction. Never has Winnicott’s “there’s no such thing as a baby” been such a searing indictment.
Avgi Saketopoulou, Cypriot and Greek psychoanalyst on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, USA
This is a powerful and precious book. The contributors have gone undaunted into the darkest of places and seen some terrible sights. Someone had to do it and thanks to these brave psychoanalysts, now someone has. They have much to teach us.
Anne Alvarez, Consultant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, London, UK
It is an essential task for psychoanalysis to contemplate the precarity of human existence in a world under threat of extinction, a pandemic, and endless wars. The social-political circumstances of our lives are as fundamental to who we are as the dynamics of our families of origins, doubly so when they are traumatic. This book explores the condition of the most vulnerable humans: children. It is written by people who have been meeting them in some of the most devastating trauma zones. It is a gift, and a demand that we pay close attention and do what we can.
Eyal Rozmarin, psychoanalyst, New York, USA
Table of Contents
Foreword
Kristin Fiorella
Part I - War
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
1. War, Trauma and the Survival of Hope in Palestine: What We Learn from its Children
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger
2. Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Universe to Children Affected by Violence
Martha Bragin
3. Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Evacuated Parents and Children during the First Weeks of the October 7th War
Ruth Weinberg
4. Minds in the Line of Fire: Mothers During the War
Kateryna Abashkina, Kateryna Alpatova,Tetiana Stasiuk, Anastasya Svinarchuk, and Emanuela Quagliata
5. Children in a World at War
Monica Cardenal
6. There’s a Hole in Daddy’s Arm: Making Contact with Opiod Epidemic in Clinical Practice
Ben Fife
7. Forbidden Games: Anti War Manifesto
Ana Belchior Melícias
8. Totalitarian Regimes and a Child’s Mind: Cria Cuervos
Mary T. Brady, Ana Belchior Melícias, Virginia Ungar, and Adriana Prengler
9. The Need for Truth in Healthy Psychic Development
Antònia Grimalt
Part II - Pandemic
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
10. Other Lullabies: Attacks on Blackness, Confusion of Tongues, and the Loss of Play
Carlos Padron
11. Caring for Cryptnids: Welcoming the More-Than-Human into Psychoanalytic Treatment
Kathleen Del Mar Miller
12. Adolescents in the Line of Fire: Between Chaos, Ideals, and Psychic Reality Today in the Adolescent Subjectivation Process
Fernando Gomez
13. S.O.S. Brasil
Alicia Beatriz Dorado de Lisondo
14. On Psychic Envelopes and Spaces for Young Children during the Pandemic
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
Part III - Climate Change
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
15. Eco-Anxiety in Children and Young People- A Rational Response, Irreconciliable Despair, or Both?
Caroline Hickman
16. The Climate Crisis and the “Unnatural” Body: Onto-epistemological Possibilities and Threats of the Genders of Children and Adolescents
Kristin Fiorella
17. Climate Anxiety, Maturational Loss, and Adversarial Growth
Panu Pihkala
18. Dwelling and the Climate Crisis: A Developmental Perspective and its Implications
Ryan Lamothe
19. The Climate Crisis: The Impact of Fragile Identificatory Models on Adolescence
Christine Franckx
About the Editor(s)
Kristin Fiorella, Psy.D., MFT, MFA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculties of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
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