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Author Edwards, Judith

Title Being Alive : Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Mainly theoretical; 1 Bridging the Atlantic for psychoanalysis: an appreciation of the contributions of Anne Alvarez; 2 Changing ideas of change: the dual components of therapeutic action; 3 A contribution to a technical frame of reference; 4 Bisexual qualities of the psychic envelope; 5 Neurobiology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis: convergent findings on the subject of projective identification; Part II Mainly clinical
6 ""Think outside, not inside"": making an interpretation hearable7 From freezing to thawing: working towards the depressive position in long-term therapy with autistic patients; 8 Deficits in the object and failures in containment; 9 Thoughts about the concepts of cognitive development, reparation and the ""manic position"": two clinical examples; 10 The sense of abundance in relation to technique; 11 Liking liking doing; 12 First love unfolding: developmental and psychoanalytic perspectives on first relationships and their significance in clinical work
13 Glimpses of what might have been: a traumatised autistic boy's struggle to have a mind14 On temporal shapes: the relation between primary rhythmical experience and the quality of mental links; Anne Alvarez's published work; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary This book is a celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally. This book:* brings together assessment of the influence of Alvarez's work across a range of child psychotherapy and related areas* evaluates how her ideas affect the most current developments in these areas* includes contributions from renowned psychoanalysts and psychotherapists from around the world. It will be of great interest to child and adolescent psychother
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Subject Alvarez, Anne, 1936- -- Bibliography
SUBJECT Alvarez, Anne, 1936- fast
Subject Child analysis.
Developmental psychology.
Autistic children.
Borderline personality disorder in children.
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Autistic children
Borderline personality disorder in children
Child analysis
Developmental psychology
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317711087
1317711084