Unconscious Communication and the Transmission of Loss
In this paper, I examine the sense of loss that some adoptive parents experience in being unable to conceive and how this interfaces with the "ambiguous loss" of the birth mother for the adoptee. I...
View ArticleAlone in the "Darkness of the Night": Psychotherapy with Children in States...
Children in states of retreat and disengagement are likely to experience therapy as a confirmation of a persecutory reality and of their own "hadness." In the countertransference, therapists are often...
View ArticleAffective Scaffolding: A Process Measure for Psychotherapy with Children
Child psychotherapy has been an underdeveloped area of study. Existing studies have focused primarily on the efficacy of behavior modification and cognitive-behavioral techniques, whereas other...
View ArticleIssues of Disruptive Attachment and Countertransference in the Treatment of a...
A capacity for self-regulation involves the ability to organize and modulate experience adaptively. Deficits in self-regulation interfere with the development of a cohesive self. This article presents...
View ArticleFantasy, Symbol, and the Development of Thought
Children who come from a background of abuse face a double challenge in the development of their capacity for symbolic thought that would allow them to know themselves and their experience. The first...
View ArticleMaking Life Good Enough
This paper presents certain aspects of the analytic process that emerged in work with an adolescent boy who, for lack of better diagnostic specificity, had come to feel as though he was a psychological...
View ArticleComplex Attachments: Exploring the Relation Between Mother and Child When...
The changing global economy has brought changes in immigration patterns. Today female workers are sought in Western countries to serve as caregivers. These women leave behind their own children to...
View ArticleOn the Intermingling of Conflict and Deficit: The Case of a Hospitalized Boy...
The contrast between "conflict" and "deficit" models of psychological disturbance, their relative weight in any given case, and the nature of their interrelatedness have persisted as topics of both...
View ArticlePsychotherapeutic Debriefing of Children and Adolescents After Exposure to...
The integration of several techniques drawn from the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy offers a model for the debriefing of children or adolescents exposed to violence in their home or...
View ArticleIntergenerational Communication of Violent Traumatic Experience Within and by...
This article considers the phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of trauma during the first years of life with particular attention to interpersonal violent trauma. A review of the literature is...
View ArticleThe Child Therapist's Generative Use of Self
The therapist's use of self, much debated in psychotherapy with adult patients, has received little explicit consideration in discussions of clinical work with children. In this clinical essay, I...
View ArticleInterventions with Parents to Support the Parental Holding Environment to...
Helping children who are exposed to violence requires the work of parents to create a safe environment, to hear their children's story of exposure, and to help the children reestablish and continue...
View ArticleParental Belief Systems and Difficulties in Parenting: Using the Parental...
THE USE OF HOCUSED WORK WITH PARENTS AS A MAIN INTERVENTION to alleviate children's problems has recently hccn recognized as an important and effective therapeutic approach, deserving of the title...
View ArticleErrata
1. The Editors of the 2002, Vol. 2, No. 4, issue of JICAP (published by Other Press, Inc.) were Drs. Gary Cox-Steiner and Morris Eagle. 2. The participants at the conference on which the journal issue...
View ArticleInfantile Trauma and the Psychoses
The etiology of psychotic states is traced to dissociative elements in infantile emotional development, utilizing case examples from psychotherapeutic work with child and adult patients. A live infant...
View ArticleWhat I Hear, I Can't Write
On sideboards in the empty living-room: no ptyx, Abolished trinket of the resonant absurd, (For the master has gone to draw tears from the Styx With this sole object of which Nothingness is proud.)...
View ArticleRemembering and Forgetting Working with Memories of Trauma with Fostered and...
This article addresses aspects of memory as they emerge in clinical work with children who are fostered and adopted. Based on Bion's model of interactive development and thinking, and on the...
View ArticleCommentary on "Treatment of an Adopted Child: The Case of Roger"
IN RECENT YEARS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IT HAS BERN UNUSUAL HOR babies to be placed at birth witb adoptive parents. Legal procedures have ensured that the first placement is to a foster carer before any...
View ArticleBeing Lost, Being Found, and Being Alone
Children's fantasies and fears about adoption and foster care are the subject of this article. The themes of the papers from the conference are taken up in the context of how children are helped to...
View ArticleParental Death and Foster Care: A Personal and Professional Perspective
This article provides a personal account of childhood loss and trauma. Using vignettes from her memoir, City of One, the author recounts the deaths of her father, grandfather, and mother and her...
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