Communicative Psychoanalysis With Children
by V. A. Bonac, London: Whurr Publishers, 2000.
With contributions from: I. Berns, U. Berns, P. Bowers, J. Kahl-Popp and M. McKee
A practical text for the child therapist, the book introduces fundamental changes to the treatment of patients of all ages.
Part One - "Communicative Theory and Technique of Psychoanalysis" explains the communicative theories of Robert Langs, discusses the rudiments of clinical technique and introduces the new theory of transference response of V. A. Bonac.
Part Two - "In the Consultation Room" presents process notes of sessions with children. Five therapists of both genders, located in four countries, treating patients of different cultural, linguistic and racial backgrounds discuss their work in detail.
Part Three - "Are We Created Equal?" the empirical evidence from the wealth of communicative practice forms the basis for the author's philosophical discussion of the universal nature of human equality and for the claim that ethics must be derived from empirical data.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: The Communicative Technique of Psycho-analysis (V. A. Bonac & U. Berns)
1. Communication
2. The Unconscious
3. The Triggering Event
4. The Inter-Personal Frame Of Therapy
5. Transference response
6. Trauma and Undistorted Perceptions
7. Fantasies and Wishes
8. The Dangers of Immediacy
9. 'Counter-Transference'
10. Validation of Interventions
11. Interopretation of Distress
Part II: In the Consulting Room
1. Stories and Mysteries (V. A. Bonac)
2. Horrors In the Mirror (V. A. Bonac, Canada)
3. Seeing, Touching, Destroying (J. Kahl-Popp, Germany)
4. The Ghost Of My Father (M. McKee, U. S. A.)
5. The Bell Rings (I. Berns, Germany)
6. The terminator (P. Bowers, England)
Part III: Are We Created Equal? (V. A. Bonac)
1. A Faustian Tale
2. Empirical Ethics
3. The Communicative Theory of Psychological Development
4. Human equality in Unconscious Experience
Glossary of Communicative Terms (U. Berns)
References
Index
The Author
The Contributors
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