ChA. 10: Theoretical and Technical Aspects of Child Analysis
Instructors
Section 1: Susan Sherkow, M.D., Claudia Lament, Ph.D. & Anna Balas, M.D.
Section 2: Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D. & Pamela Meersand, Ph.D.
Section 3: David Goldenberg, M.D. & Kimberly Chu, LCSW
September 15 – December 1, 2022 (Section I)
8:35 – 10:00 pm
January 5 – March 23, 2023 (Section II)
8:35 – 10:00 pm
March 30 – June 8, 2023 (Section III)
7:00 – 8:25 pm
No class: 11/24, 1/26, 2/2, 4/6
Course Description
This course is given in partnership with the child analysis programs of Columbia and PANY. It is a basic course in the theory and technique of child analysis and will cover the indications for child analysis, the role of parents, the use of play, defense analysis and other techniques of interpretation. Transference and its handling, the interpretation of dreams, manifestations of resistance will also be addressed. There will also be time to consider the modification of technique according to the maturational age of the patient.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply child-analytic criteria to diagnose and identify children who are suitable for child psychoanalytic treatment.
- Distinguish the difference between adult psychoanalytic technique and child analytic technique.
Evaluation Method
Each student’s participation in class discussion and his or her demonstration of understanding of the course objectives and reading material is assessed in a written evaluation by the instructor(s).
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JUMP TO:
Section II
Section I
READINGS FOR SECTION I ARE CONFIRMED.
I. Introduction to General Principles
CLASS 1: September 15, 2022
with Susan Sherkow, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Glenn, J. (1976). “General Principles of Child Analysis,” Child Analysis and Therapy, J. Glenn, ed., 1992, Jason Aronson Inc., 29-64. (Read pp. 29-59)
Winnicott, D.W. (1980). The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl, 1977, Hogarth Press. 9-39. (Read initial chapter)
Sherkow, S. (2002). “The Analysis of a Pre-Adolescent Girl with Primal Scene Fantasies,” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 327-354. (Read pp. 327-337)
Sherkow, S. (2013). “Sonia: The Vicissitudes of Masturbatory Fantasies in a Preoedipal Child,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33:374-393. (Read pp. 374-378)
Sherkow, S. (2005). Case summary of BC
Klein, M. (1932). “Psychoanalytic Foundations of Child Analysis,” The Psychoanalysis of Children, 1954, Hogarth Press, 23-64. (Read pp. 40-52)
II. Why Analysis? Assessing the Parents’ and the Child’s Needs and Suitability
CLASS 2: September 22, 2022
with Susan Sherkow, M.D.
Please also read enough of the three cases to answer the question at hand, in the context of reading the literature: Why were these three children in need of an analysis, instead of psychotherapy, and what characteristics about them and their parents made them suitable cases?
REQUIRED READINGS
Freud, A. (1965) Assessment of Pathology, Part I; Some General Considerations. The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol. VI, pp 108-138.
Bernstein, I. (1958).The Importance of Characteristics of the Parents in Deciding on Child Analysis. JAPA, 6: 73-78.
Feigelson, C. (1977). On the Essential Characteristics of Child Analysis, PSC, 32: 353-361.
Winnicott, D.W. 1980. The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl, 1977, Hogarth Press. p. 40-end.
The Piggle. pp. 1-101
The Piggle. pp. 102 – 201
III. Sonia
CLASS 3: September 29, 2022
with Susan Sherkow, M.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Sherkow, S. (2013). “Sonia: The Vicissitudes of Masturbatory Fantasies in a Preoedipal Child,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33:374-393. (Read pp. 379-393)
Sours, John. “An analytically oriented approach to the Diagnostic Evaluation” in Child Analysis and Therapy, Glenn, pp 597-614.
Kennedy, H., Moran, G. (1991). Reflections on the Aim of Child Analysis. Psychoanal. St. Child, 46:181-198.
Sherkow, S. (2002). “The Analysis of a Pre-Adolescent Girl with Primal Scene Fantasies,” Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 327-354. (Finish reading the case.)
Section I Continued
IV. Child and Adult Analysis
CLASS 4: October 6, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Abrams, S. (1988). The Psychoanalytic Process in Adults and Children. Psychoanal. St. Child, 43:245-261.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Anthony, E.J. (1982). The Comparable Experience of a Child and Adult Analyst. Psychoanal. St. Child, 37:339-366
V. Technique and Therapeutic Action
CLASS 5: October 13, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Ablon, S.L. (2001). The Work of Transformation: Changes in Technique since Anna Freud’s Nor… Psychoanal. St. Child, 56:27-38.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Abrams, S. (1999). How Child and Adult Analysis Inform And Misinform One Another. Annu. Psychoanal., 26:3-20
VI. Play
CLASS 6: October 20, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Neubauer, P.B. (1987). The Many Meanings of Play—Introduction. Psychoanal. St. Child, 42:3-9.
Neubauer, P. (1993). Playing: Technical implications. The Many Meanings of Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Solnit, A., et al, eds., Yale UP, 44-53.
VII. Issues related to working with Children during the Pandemic
CLASS 7: October 27, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Barrett, D. M. & Miller, J. M. (2021). Introduction – Analytic Work in the Pandemic. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74:16-17.
Sehon, C. (2021). Technology as a Play Object in Teleanalysis with Young Children. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74:26-43.
VIII. Play continued
CLASS 8: November 3, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Joseph, B. (1998) Thinking about a Playroom. J.Child Psychother, 24: 359-366.
Mahon, E.J. (1993) “Play: Its Role in Child Analysis, Its Fate in Adult Analysis,” The Many Meanings of Play: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Solnit et al, eds., Yale UP, 172-182.
Yanof, J. (1996) “Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis: II. Is Child Analysis Really Analysis?” JAPA, 44(1), 100-116.
IX. Parents
CLASS 9: November 10, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2000). Parent Work in Analysis: Children, Adolescents, and Adults. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 1(4):55-77
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Baruch, G. (1997). The Impact Of Parental Interventions On The Analysis Of A 5-Year-Old Boy. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 78:913-926
Furman, E. (1999). ‘The impact of parental interventions’. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 80(1):172
Lament, C. (2015). A Misuse of Bion’s “Reverie-ing Mother”: Another Weapon in the War against Women as Waged in the Consulting Room. Psychoanal. St. Child, 69:59-82.
Lieberman, A.F. and Harris, W.W. (2007). Still Searching for the Best Interests of the Child. Psychoanal. St. Child, 62:211-238
Malberg, N.T. (2012). Commentary on Victoria Todd’s Paper. Psychoanal. St. Child, 66:33-36
Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2002). Parent Work in Analysis: Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Part Three: Middle and Pretermination Phases. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 2(2):17-41
Novick, K.K. and Novick, J. (2002). Parent Work in Analysis: Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Part Four: Termination and Post-Termination Phases. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 2(2):43-55
Novick, J. and Novick, K.K. (2012). Discussion of Victoria Todd’s Paper. Psychoanal. St. Child, 66:28-32
Target, M. Hertzmann, L. Midgley, N. Casey, P. Lassri, D. (2017). Parents’ experience of child contact within entrenched conflict families following separation and divorce: a qualitative study. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 31(2):218-246
Todd, V. (2012). Saving the Treatment. Psychoanal. St. Child, 66:3-27
Wallerstein, J., Lewis, J. and Rosenthal, S.P. (2013). Mothers and Their Children after Divorce. Psychoanal. Psychol., 30(2):167-184
X. Divorce
CLASS 10: December 1, 2022
with Anna Balas, M.D. & Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
REQUIRED READINGS
READINGS FOR SECTION II ARE CONFIRMED.
Section II
I. Defense Analysis, I
CLASS 1: January 5, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Bornstein, B. (1951). On Latency. Psychoanal. St. Child, 6:279-285.
Becker, T.E. (1974). On Latency. Psychoanal. St. Child, 29:3-11.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Abrams, S. (2014). “Frankie” Revisited: Foundational Concepts in Flux—An Introduction to the Section. Psychoanal. St. Child, 68:91-97.
Hoffman, L. (2014). Berta Bornstein’s “Frankie” The Contemporary Relevance of a Classic to the Treatment of Children with Disruptive Symptoms. Psychoanal. St. Child, 68:152-176.
II. Defense Analysis, II
CLASS 2: January 12, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Hoffman, L. (2007). Do Children Get Better when we Interpret their Defenses against Painful Feelings?. Psychoanal. St. Child, 62:291-313.
III. Transference
CLASS 3: January 19, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Fraiberg, S.H. (1951). Clinical Notes on the Nature of Transference in Child Analysis. Psychoanal. St. Child, 6:286-306.
Keable, H. (2002). Child Case Presentation. J. Clin. Psychoanal., 11(4):510-523.
IV. Analytic Frame and Neutrality
CLASS 4: February 9, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Chused, J.F. (1982). The Role of Analytic Neutrality in the Use of the Child Analyst as a New Object. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 30:3-28.
Ablon, S.L. (2001). The Work of Transformation: Changes in Technique since Anna Freud’s Normality and Pathology in Childhood. Psychoanal. St. Child, 56: 27-38.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Barish, K. (2004). The Child Therapist’s Generative Use of Self. Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, 3:270-282.
V. Countertransference
CLASS 5: February 16, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Mirkin, M. (2019). Judge Not the Play Before the Play Is Done: The Role of Creative Play in the Treatment of a Child with a History of Congenital Impairment. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 72:143-158.
Yanof, J.A. (2000). Barbie and the Tree of Life: The Multiple Functions of Gender in Development. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 48(4):1439-1465.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Chused, J.F. (1988). The Transference Neurosis in Child Analysis. Psychoanal. St. Child, 43:51-81.
VI. Play
CLASS 6: February 23, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Gilmore, K. (2005). Play in the Psychoanalytic Setting: Ego Capacity, Ego State, and Vehicle for Intersubjective Exchange. Psychoanal. St. Child, 60:213-238.
Birch, M. (1997). In the Land of Counterpane: Travels in the Realm of Play. Psychoanal. St. Child, 52:057-075.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Joyce, A.F. (2011). Interpretation and Play: Some Aspects of the Process of Child Analysis. Psychoanal. St. Child, 65:152-168.
VII. Dreams
CLASS 7: March 2, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Karush, R.K. (1998). The Use of Dream Analysis in the Treatment of a Nine-year-old Obsessional Boy. Psychoanal. St. Child, 53:199-211.
Schmukler, A. G. (2016). Aspects of Insight in Working with Children’s Dreams. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36:220-227.
VIII. Insight
CLASS 8: March 9, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Kennedy, H. (1979). The Role Of Insight In Child Analysis: A Developmental Viewpoint. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 27S(Supplement):9-28.
Sugarman, A. (2003). A New Model for Conceptualizing Insightfulness in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children. Psychoanal. Q., 72:325-355.
IX. Aggression
CLASS 9: March 16, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Fraiberg, S. (1962) Technical aspects of the analysis of a child with a severe behavior disorder, JAPA, 10, 338-367.
Karush, R.K. (2006). The Vicissitudes of Aggression in a Toddler: A Clinical Contribution. PSC 61: 3-19.
X. Termination
CLASS 10: March 23, 2023
with Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Pamela Meersand, PhD
REQUIRED READINGS
Fabricius, J., Green, V. (1995). Termination in Child Analysis: A Child-Led Process?. Psychoanal. St. Child, 50:205-225.
Karush, R.K. (2014). Postscripts: Reflections on the Post-Termination Phase. Psychoanal. St. Child, 68:234-247.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Freud, A. (1970) Problems of Termination in Child Analysis. In “The Writings of Anna Freud” Vol. VII, 3-21. New York, IUP, 1971.
Kantrowitz, J.L. Balsam, R. Greenberg, J. Jacobs, T. Kulish, N. Nunberg, H. Orgel, S. (2017). What It Means to an Analyst When Analyses End. Psychoanal. St. Child, 70:257-272.
READINGS FOR SECTION III ARE CONFIRMED.
Section III
with David Goldenberg, M.D. & Kimberly Chu, LCSW
I. Reconsidering Development
CLASS 1: March 30, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Knight, R. (2022). Reconsidering Development in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 75:215-232.
Gilmore, K. (2017). Development in the Digital Age: An Introduction to the Section. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 70:82-90.
II. Deepening the Transference
CLASS 2: April 13, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Fraiberg, S. (1966). Further Considerations of the Role of Transference in Latency. Psychoanal. St. Child, 21:213-236.
Ehrlich, L.T. (2010). The Analyst’s Ambivalence about Continuing and Deepening an Analysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 58(3):515-532.
III. Language
CLASS 3: April 20, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Yanof, J.A. (1996). Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis I. Selective Mutism: The Medium Is the Message II. Is Child Analysis Really Analysis?. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 44:79-99.
Yanof, J.A. (1996). Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis I. Selective Mutism: The Medium Is the Message II. Is Child Analysis Really Analysis?. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 44:100-116.
IV. Aspects of Play
CLASS 4: April 27, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Ablon, S.L. (2014). What Child Analysis Can Teach Us about Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanal. St. Child, 68:211-224.
Meersand, P. (2017). Early Latency and the Impact of the Digital World: Exploring the Effect of Technological Games on Evolving Ego Capacities, Superego Development, and Peer Relationships. Psychoanal. St. Child, 70:117-129.
V. Superego Manifestations
CLASS 5: May 4, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Sugarman, A. (1999). The Boy in the Iron Mask: Superego Issues in the Analysis of a Two-Year-Old Encopretic. Psychoanal Q., 68(4):497-519.
Shopper, M. (2014). The Role of Sports in the Development of the Superego of the Male Latency Child. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:264-289.
VI. Gender
CLASS 6: May 11, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Osserman, J. & Wallerstein, H. (2022). Transgender Children: From Controvery to Dialogue. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 75:159-172.
Saketopoulou, A. (2020). Thinking psychoanalytically, thinking better: Reflections on transgender. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101:1019-1030.
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Transgender Children (Special Section, 2022) The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 75:1. (Authors: Gozlan, Silber, Watson, Wiggins)
Transgender Children (Special Section, 2014) The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:1. (Authors: Lament, Ehrensaft, Knight, Brinich, Weinstein & Wallerstein)
Saketopoulou, A. (2014). Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62:773-806.
VII. Aggression
CLASS 7: May 18, 2023 (short class due to child seminar)
REQUIRED READINGS
Olesker, W. (2012). Aggression and Impulse Control in the Analysis of a Young Boy. Psychoanal. St. Child, 66:81-108.
Yanof, J.A. (2012). Treating Children with Affect Dysregulation: Discussion of Dr. Wendy Olesker’s Analysis of Matt. Psychoanal. St. Child, 66:109-121.
VIII. Technique in Latency
CLASS 8: May 25, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Hoffman, L. (2014). Berta Bornstein’s “Frankie” The Contemporary Relevance of a Classic to the Treatment of Children with Disruptive Symptoms. Psychoanal. St. Child, 68:152-176
IX. Considerations of Race and Ethnicity in Child Treatment
CLASS 9: June 1, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Stoute, B. J. & Slevin, M. (2021). Introduction – African American Children in the World of Structural Racism: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74:44-46.
Vaughans, K. C. (2021). Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 74:47-58.
X. Pre-Adolescence
CLASS 10: June 8, 2023
REQUIRED READINGS
Blos, P. (1958). Preadolescent Drive Organization. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 6:47-56.