1st Edition
Dream and Fantasy in Child Analysis
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 children's 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? Children's play, too, presents... Read more
Introduction , Children’s dreams—where the wild things are , The development of children’s dreams , A child is playing, a child is dreaming , On not being able to dream: the role of maternal containment in the therapy of a young child who suffered from night terrors , Dream, phantasy, and children’s play: Spaces in which a child approaches thinking between wish-fulfilment, mental processing of affect, and mastering of reality , On reflection in dreams or “Do people get lost if they go up in a hot air balloon?” , Dreams and narratives in the developmental process: Dreaming as perceived in developmental psychology and neurobiology
Biography
Michael Gunter
