Grandfathers, Mothers, and Sons; Three Generations Undertake a Project of Reconstruction and Restoration
This paper describes the re-accessing of early trauma, longings and subsequent repression in a 91-year-old man who enters psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The precipitant is both a loss and the infliction of severe psychological pain occasioned by the arrival of a grandson.
Noticing Understanding Responding - Winnicott at Work
This paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing, and its links with the development of psychic flexibility.
The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Pre-representational
The author cites the prominence of theories which locate serious adult psychopathology in the pre-verbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience.