1st Edition
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychotherapy in Adolescence
Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen remedy that omission by showing how and why psychological and physical abuse suffered by young children erupts in violent and destructive behavior against the self and others. Using clinical material, they establish the link between archetypal imagery, disturbed behavior, and instinctual drive.
Drawing from all schools of analytical psychology, the authors, along with several associates, focus mainly on severe neurotic disturbances and behavioral problems occurring in adolescence. Because most disturbances originate in the body, the contributors concentrate on self-destructive behavior: suicide, self-mutilation, and other self-damaging acts. Focused heavily on the treatment of these adolescents, the text has selections from an international group of contributors, providing diverse accounts of both theoretical and technical approaches to therapy. The case histories illustrate the relationship between the analyst and the adolescent patient as it develops in consultation. Interweaving the concepts of Jung, Freud, and others makes this volume a unique contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. It will be of sustained interest to psychoanalysts, child psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists.
Part I Individual Adolescent Psychotherapy in Private and Clinical PracticeSection 1. A Jungian Approach Introduction to Section 1: Jung's Contribution to the Understanding of Adolescence and A Review of the Literature
Gustav Bovensiepen 1 Notes on Technique and the Personality of the Analyst
Gustav Bovensiepen and Mara Sidoli 2 Experience of Time and Death Fantasies in Adolescence
Mara Sidoli and Gustav BovensiepenSection 2. Incest Fantasies and Separation Introduction to Section 2 3 Oedipus as a Pre-Oedipal Hero
Mara Sidoli 4 Incest Fantasies as a Defense against the Analysis of Pre-Oedipal Object Relations
Gustav BovensiepenSection 3. Acting Out Incest Fantasies Introduction to Section 3 5 The Trickster and the Terrible Mother: Archetypes Experienced during the Treatment of a Preadolescent Sexually Abused Girl
Janet Glynn-Treble 6 Heroic Deeds, Manic Defense, and Intrusive Identification: Some Reflections on Psychotherapy with a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy
Miranda DaviesSection 4. Defenses of the Self: A Psychological Suicide Introduction to Section 4 7 Defenses of the Self in a Preadolescent Boy
Miranda Davies 8 Suicide and Attacks on the Body as a Containing Object
Gustav BovensiepenSection 5. Heterosexual and Homosexual Elements in the Search for Identity Introduction to Section 9 What to Do about Mother? An Adolescent Girl's Dilemma
Jane Bunster 10 The Search for Identity in Late Adolescence
Brian FeldmanSection 6. Attacks on the Body Introduction to Section 6 11 Bulimia in Adolescent Women: An Exploration of Personal and Archetypal Dynamics in Analysis
BrianFeldman 12 The Stone Womb: A Case of Psychogenic Paralysis
Francesco BisagniSection 7. Attacks on the Mind Introduction to Section 7 13 The Fight against Big Nose
Mara Sidoli 14 First Steps toward Independence: Transference Manifestations in a Fifteen-Year-Old Boy
Helga Anderssen-PlautPart II Inpatient and Outpatient Adolescent Psychotherapy in InstitutionsIntroduction to Part II 15 The Clinic as Container
Gustav Bovensiepen 16 Group Therapy in a Day Care Setting
Heide Heidtke and Michael Neumann-Schirmbeck 17 Borderline States, Incest, and Adolescence: Inpatient Psychotherapy
Geoffrey Brown 18 Sandplay Therapy and Verbal Interpretation with an Anorexic Girl
Gianni Nagliero 19 Individual Psychotherapy in a Residential School for Girls
Janet Glynn-TrebleIndex
Biography
Mara Sidoli
