Dream and Fantasy in Child Analysis ISBN-13: 9780367101909

Author: Teicher, Samy

Brand: Routledge

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780367101909

Release Date: 21-06-2019

Languages: English

Binding: Hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches

Details: The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, focus on the close connection between childrens imaginative world, their dream life, and play. Is it a dream that a child is recounting or is it rather a fantasy to be regarded as equivalent to a dream? Childrens play, too, presents important material that allows us to draw inferences about the subconscious. Indeed dreams, daydreams, fantasies and play were originally treated as of equal importance in child analysis. How do child analysts work with dreams at the practical and theoretical levels? In the practice of child analysis today do we find analysis of dreams and the classic differentiations between manifest and latent content? Is attention accorded to the mechanisms of condensation, displacement etc. described by Freud? The current discussion on working with childrens dreams and their equivalents in todays practice of child psychoanalysis forms the central focus of the contributions collected in this book.