Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task

Nilde Parada Franch is a training analyst and child and adolescent analyst at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo. She was chair of the IPA COCAP.Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York. Member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris and of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. She is chair of the COCAP.Mónica Cardenal is a training analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, Argentina. She is a COCAP consultant and Chair of the PACE Committee.Majlis Winberg Salomonsson is a training and child psychoanalyst at the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, Stockholm, Sweden.

"Child analysis is often regarded as an offspring of adult analysis. In some ways this is historically correct. Simultaneously, child analysis often is in the vanguard of technical and theoretical advances which become the foundations of schools of psychoanalytic thought. This fine volume makes it abundantly clear why this is so. From many different vantage points, play in all of its vicissitudes is examined and the ways in which changing times and changing demands inform the structure of the Spielraum, the play space, and thus the nature of the analytic data. What remains the same is the meaningfulness of the deep play which evolves in a safe enough place with a significant adult other. This is the hallmark of child analysis. This volume is a significant contribution valuable for all child analysts and all adult analysts too." - James Herzog, Adult and Child Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst; Training and Supervisory Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Supervisory Analyst, Sigmund Freud Institute, Zurich, and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Boston"Thanks to its unique inter-regional scope, this fascinating collection of essays proposes today the most updated and complete exploration of child and adolescent issues and treatments in contemporary psychoanalysis, and thereby reopen their exciting intellectual and clinical potential. The many theoretical and clinical contributions by brilliant and erudite scholars offer a fresh take on the babies, children, and teenagers of our difficult time, from the pandemic, the cyberspace to developmental issues and the analyst’s work of containment and interpretation. This very accessible book offers rich reflections on child psychoanalysis that will challenge and enlighten readers of all backgrounds, starting from their training and in their following professional evolution up to the highest scientific and professional level." - Stefano Bolognini, Psychiatrist and Training and Supervising Analyst; former President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society; past-President, IPA; Founder, Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis; author, Secret Passages: The Theory and Technique of Interpsychic Relations (Routledge)

• Series editor foreword Gabriela LegorretaPrefaceVirginia Ungar and Sergio NickIntroduction Nilde Parada FranchPart I: Landscapes of Childhood and AdolescenceChapter 1: On PlayfulnessChristine Anzieu-PremmereurChapter 2: The shifting boundaries of the psychic intimate spaces during childhood and adolescence, in our postmodern occidental societiesJulie AugoyardChapter 3: The Oblivious ObjectMary BradyChapter 4: Introjective processes, the work on the infantile as a mental stateMónica CardenalChapter 5: The interpretation of oedipal configurations in child analysisFlorence GuignardChapter 6: Secrecy in the infantile…Julieta Alejandra PagliniPart II: Considerations About Trauma and Parent Infant Analysis Chapter 7: The parental unconscious: trauma, crypts, fantasies and failuresNilde Jacob Parada Franch and Vera Regina Jardim Ribeiro Marcondes Fonseca Chapter 8: Remembering and working through, the Trauma of Paternal loss & maternal postpartum Depression: The Case of SamMali MannChapter 9: Notes on breakdown in child development, misconceptions and disorientationsEmanuela QuagliataChapter10: Repairing a fractured child and family mindCaroline Sehon Chapter 11: Cyberspace as refuge or prison – An exploration of analytic communicationMajlis Winberg SalomonssonPart III : New Voices in Child AnalysisChapter 12: Autistic functioning and psychic pain? Building up possible linksMariângela Mendes de Almeida Part IV: The PresentChapter 13: Developmental impact of very early childhood on treatment and techniqueKerry Kelly NovickChapter 14: Video child psychotherapy during confinement: for better or for worseJulia-Flore Alibert Chapter 15: Working with Children and their Parents in Pandemic TimesMagdalena Calvo Sánchez-Sierra, Monica Cardenal, Mariela Illán Gómez, Alicia MonserratFemenía and Elizabeth Palacios