Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis

Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis presents a wide range of full case presentations of children and adolescents undergoing psychoanalytic treatment, covering key issues such as trauma, aggression, depression and sexual development.

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Christel Airas is a child and adolescent psychoanalyst in private practice in Helsinki, Finland. She is a training and supervising analyst in the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society.

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Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis presents a wide range of full case presentations of children and adolescents undergoing psychoanalytic treatment, covering key issues such as trauma, aggression, depression and sexual development.

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Foreword to the English edition

Antonino Ferro

Preface

Christel Airas

1. Introduction

Inkeri Suominen

2. On the transference and the relationship with a new developmental object in child psychoanalysis: the curative factors in child psychoanalytic treatment

Elisabeth Haapatalo

3. Treating early trauma - Aino's psychoanalysis

Maarit Veikkolainen

4. Amanda - alone at world's end

   Inkeri Suominen

5. The case of Tiina: the struggle to relinquish the need to control mother

Mervi-Marja Mero

6. From rumination to thinking: the psychoanalysis of an 8-13-year-old boy

   Leena Linna-Koskela

7. The case of Liisa: the enigma of a preadolescent girl's hysterical symptoms

   Merja Kaleva

8: Uncovering the sources of phobic fears: the psychoanalysis of a seven-year-old girl

Christel Airas

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