Dialogues with Children and Adolescents

Björn Salomonsson is a Swedish psychoanalyst in private practice and at the Mama Mia Child Health Centre. He is also a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He has published on containment, the analysis of children with ADHD, various subjects on infant-mother psychoanalysis and on case presentation methods. His book "Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents" was published by Routledge in 2014. Majlis Winberg Salomonsson is a Swedish training and child psychoanalyst. She is working in private practice and is lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Stockholm. Majlis is also a researcher at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She has published papers on psychoanalysis with children and adolescents.

"This rare and important book will speak to a wide range of people, almost anyone who lives or works with children and sometimes wants to understand them better. Writing with decades of therapeutic experience, but with direct simplicity and humanity, we can feel the mystery of children's experiences, and yet how much they can make sense with patient, respectful and creative attention. I warmly recommend this book to interested parents, young people and to professionals who work with them. Like me, they may find it hard to put down!" -Mary Target PhD, Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London."This book combines the sensitivities of two extraordinary clinicians, analysts and fine human beings. The result is a view of work with children and young people which is a gift to all who work with such populations. Moreover, it is a must read for adult clinicians who know that their patient;s childhood figures prominently in the ways in which the mind is both organized and disorganized. Read it and learn."-James Herzog, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Adult and Child Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Supervising Analyst, Sigmund Freud Institute, Zurich.

• INTRODUCTION1 – THE LAND OF O2 – THE HOLE IN THE ESCALATOR3 – WHY ARE THEY DOING LIKE THAT? 4 – RAGING WITH LOVE5 - HERE COMES PIPPI LUNDSTRÖM6 – YOU’LL BE DEADER THAN DEAD7 – WE DON’T LOOK INTO EACH OTHER’S EYES8 – MY HEAD IS A MESS9 – RESTLESS AND RUTHLESS – OR JUST ROOTLESS? 10 – LETTER FROM THE VOLCANO11 – THAT TINGLING FEELING12 – NO CONNECTION13 – THE FIRST TIME THAT I SAW YOU14 – THE LAST TIME THAT I SAW YOU15 – COMMENTARIES TO CHAPTERS 2-12