Holding the child in mind: Work with parents and families in a consultation service

Psychoanalytic application and psychoanalytic integrity

“…The heterogeneous sphere of applied work that I wish to employ as an exemplar is directed, clinically, towards such ends as community mental health or child protection. Edwards and Maltby (1998) locate it at the interface of the internal and external world (Trowell and Bower, 1995;Hindle, 1998;Zalidis, 2002;Loshak, 2003). Often called applied psychotherapy, it has affi nities with Twemlow's (2000) work on violence in a school, except that he intervened at institutional levels.…”

“…Often called applied psychotherapy, it has affi nities with Twemlow's (2000) work on violence in a school, except that he intervened at institutional levels. Some of it contrasts by its brevity with the kind of work I shall describe, which entails introjection over time (Edwards and Maltby, 1998;Garland, 1998;Zalidis, 2002). All of it has historical roots in the psychodynamic casework tradition of 30 years ago, and has an earlier social medicine history in Glover's (1944) work with delinquents; then, as now, its practitioners or their supervisors were often trained in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.…”

Holding and letting go: Some thoughts about the process of ending therapy

“…This is certainly food for thought in terms of work with children where, by the end of treatment, the therapist is a new and important object in his or her developing world. For some patients and their fimilies, post-therapy contact may play a crucial role in 'augmenting the gains' of the work -providing a secure base to return to both in times of need and quite simply in terms of confirmation of the importance of what has taken place between them (Bowlby, 1988; Edwards and Maltby, 1998). The lack of opportunity to discuss endings A further contributing hctor to the lack of discussion of ending therapy may be that there is often not s d c i e n t opportunity during trainiig to experience or hear about the many different ways in which therapy actually ends in ordinary d i n i d situations, after qd%cation.…”

Searching for Togetherness: The Simultaneous Treatment of a Mother and Her Early Adolescent Daughter

“…Within this context, he emphasizes the therapist's capacity to "play" with the parent's projections, to accept them while not being bound to them unreflectively, as carrying the potential for therapeutic leverage. The reader is also directed to other recent articles pertaining to this topic, including publications by Altman, et al (2002); Bartram (2003); Edwards and Maltby (1998); Klauber (1991); Lassonde and Mayes (2005); Rustin (1999); and Arietta Slade (1999). SEARCHING FOR TOGETHERNESS 71 Margaret Mahler expressed concern that, if the same therapist saw both parent and child, a double transference-countertransference problem might arise.…”