Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children

Learning to Surf

Mary T. Brady

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Routledge
23 December 2024

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Child & developmental psychology; Psychotherapy

Series: Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis

In Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf, Mary T. Brady expertly guides the reader through the challenging and vital process of working with young analysands.

Brady likens the experience to ‘learning to surf.’ While finding Bion’s metaphor that the analyst must be able to ‘think under fire’ useful, she suggests ‘learning to surf’ is more apt in psychoanalysis with adolescents and children. Drawing on this metaphor throughout the volume, she describes how the adolescent can be potentially upended, injured or even killed by emotional waves too tumultuous to manage. Surfing also evokes the often uneasy but sometimes thrilling balances of adolescence. Using clinical vignettes from her extensive experience in the field, Brady explores how to work with young people experiencing issues such as eating disorders, gender challenges, parental substance abuse and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Bionian Field Theory, as well as the work of Donald Winnicott, she explores how analysts can surf with the adolescent or child in navigating the ebb and flow of psychic life and development.

This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, including psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counselors, who treat children and adolescents.

By: Mary T. Brady
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781032812434
ISBN 10: 1032812435
Series: Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 23 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction 1. Learning to surf: Analyzing adolescents 2. “Daddy’s head is broken”: Treatment of Children of severe alcoholics 3. The oblivious object 4. Adolescent feminine subjectivities elaborated via transitory objects in the analytic field 5. Fear of eating up the mother: An adolescent phantasy in some anorectics 6. To know or not to know: an application of Bion’s K and –K to child treatment 7. Considerations regarding the establishment of play space: Shifting psychic states in a five-year-old 8. Totalitarian regimes and a child’s mind: Cria Cuervos 9. Adolescent psychic isolation and bodily based symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary T. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco, USA. On the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, she is a recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Roughton Award for her writing. She is the editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022) and the author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015). She is Co-Chair for the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the IPA and has co-led a Psychoanalysis and Film group for a decade.

Reviews for Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf

‘Based on her clinical expertise with children and adolescents, Mary Brady’s book captures the essence and the complexity of psychoanalytic technique with young patients who are in pain and in severely damaged environments. The book includes beautiful chapters, some in collaboration with other eminent psychoanalysts. The diversity of clinical work presented here and the rigor of theory, for instance in the usage of Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott makes this book stand out. I have no doubt that it will be of great interest to those working in the field of mental health.’ Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Chair of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis