Love the Wild Swan

Judith Edwards, PhD, MACP, is a former consultant child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has worked at the Tavistock Clinic since the 1980s. She has been internationally published and is a past editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. She edited the collection Being Alive (2001), and is the author of memoir Pieces of Molly: An Ordinary Life (Karnac, 2014)

"While each chapter can be a complete and satisfying read in itself, each one also contains links to others, sometimes pointed out by the writer, sometimes more subtly implied. So the book is not only a collection of pieces. It is a unified whole, portraying some of the key endeavours, the ongoing formulations and the rich internal and intellectual world of a skilled and creative practitioner." - Lee Marsden, The Journal of Educational Psychotherapy

• Foreword General Introduction Section 1 1.Suffering, Weeping and other preoccupations: Darwin's observations and our present day practice 2 .Early Splitting and Projective Identification 3 Teaching Observation to non-clinical students Section 2 4: Towards solid ground: the ongoing journey of an adolescent boy with autistic features5. You can?€?t miss what you?€?ve never had. Can you? The challenges and struggles of single parenthood from a psychoanalytic perspective 6. On being dropped and picked up: The plight of some late adopted children Section 3 7. Teaching, learning and Bion?€?s Model of digestion 8. Before the threshold: Destruction, reparation and creativity before the depressive position 9. Ripples in mental space caused by dark matters and twisted tales: Some reflections on memory, memoirs and therapeutic work Section 4 10. Teaching and learning about psychoanalysis: Film as a teaching tool, with reference to a particular film, Morvern Callar 11. Sifting through the sands of time: Mourning and melancholia revisited through a film 12. Seeing and being seen: The dialectics of intimate space and Antony Gormley's Event Horizon 13.The elusive pursuit of insight: Three poems by W.B.Yeats and the human task