Main description:

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides in-depth descriptions of past and present analytic concepts, with accompanying examples of how these theories affect clinical interventions. A wide range of psychopathology is described, including child abuse, ADHD, autism, and hostile acts performed by adults as well as by children. Accounts of the treatment process and progress are prefaced by a review of the literature. Each clinical example is accompanied by a psychoanalytic understanding of what transpired in the treatment while the final chapter reviews the currently popular theories of what creates positive change in treatment outcome.

Contents:

1) Three Theoretical Perspectives on Child Development.
2) Four Psychoanalytic Perspectives: A Study of Differences in Interpretive Interventions, published in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 38, pp. 1017-1047, co-authored with my late husband, Sidney Fine, M.D.
3) The Protective Devices of the Human Psyche. A Construct That Bridges Four
Psychoanalytic Theories.
4) Latency
5) Guidelines for a Positive Therapeutic Outcome
6) From Autism to Oedipus (Published in The Vulnerable Child, Vol. 3, pp. 300-334, co-authored with Sidney Fine, M.D.)
7) ADHD: A Rush to Judgment
8) Grapes of Wrath: Treatment of the Incomplete Repression of Revenge and
Underlying Guilt
9) Psychodynamics of Physical and Sexual Child Abuse
10) A New Age in Psychoanalysis