Autorentext

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in New York City, USA. She is series editor of the Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis book series and co-editor of A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure (2023), The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task (2022) and A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World (2017).

Mary T. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco. She is author of Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf (2024) and editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022), as well as author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015).

Christine Franckx is a child psychiatrist and training (child) analyst in the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society. She is the EU co-chair of COCAP. She works in private practice in Antwerp with adults, children and infants.

Fernando M. Gómez is a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child and adolescent psychoanalyst of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA), FEPAL, and IPA. He is Latin America Co-Chair of COCAP and works in private practice in Buenos Aires with adults, children, and infants.

Klappentext

The Body and Compulsion from Infancy to Young Adulthood: New Perspectives on Addiction, Self-Harm and Suicide examines the complex interplay between early childhood experiences and the development of compulsive behaviours across the lifespan, with a focus on how these compulsions present from infancy to young adulthood.

A diverse group of international psychoanalysts from a range of theoretical perspectives and clinical experiences examine the severe bodily symptoms and syndromes often seen in young patients, and offer profound insight into the metapsychological foundations of repetition and destructiveness. Through compelling clinical vignettes and theoretical explorations, the contributors demonstrate how early trauma and neglect can disrupt the psyche, leading to damaging behavioural and emotional pathologies. Eating disorders, depression, anxiety, violent behaviour, suicidality and addiction are looked at in turn, with the contributors highlighting the challenge they pose in the therapeutic setting, and offering guidance on how to navigate sessions with those suffering from them.

This essential volume provides invaluable insights for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals working with patients struggling with compulsive patterns, while also offering theoretical depth for scholars interested in early development, trauma and the foundations of psychic structure.

Inhalt

Introduction PART 1: Introduction Compulsive repetition with the body in infancy, consequences in adolescence and adulthood 1. Baby and Compulsion 2. Discussion of Christine Anzieu-Premmereur's Chapter 3. Destructiveness, melancholy and the death drive 4. Some Notes on Repetition, Repetition Compulsion and Drive: Discussion of Rene Rousillon 5. Repetition compulsion, from infancy to adulthood: A cross-reading of the articles by C. Anzieu-Premmereur and R. Roussillon PART 2: Introduction Facing the Pain: From Substance Abuse to Human Dependence 6. **Substance Abuse in an Adolescent Boy: Waking the Object 7. Substance Use as part of a Pathological Organization: Disturbing the Persecutor/Protector of an Adolescent Girl 8. A Shelter of Numbness 9. Discussion on Addiction in Adolescence Through Three Clinical Cases PART 3: Introduction Self-Harming, a challenge for both patients and psycho-analysts 10. **Self-Harming in early life and the difficulty in living for some infants 11. The Silent Scream: 'Under Anorexia Nervosa' 12. Self-Harm behaviors in adolescents: Psychoanalytic understanding 13. Self-harm behaviors in adolescents: Understanding the role of social media, family and society. Therapeutic implications 14. Discussion of Self-Harming from a French psychoanalytic perspective 15. A 'superstructure' for holding on to or for self-destroying? PART 4: Introduction Suicide and Masochism in Adolescence Today 16. An endless tragedy: attempts and suicide in childhood and adolescence 17. Are the kids alright? Why is life unlivable? Suicidal tendencies in gender disorders and trans identity 18. Hosting strangeness: self-harm and suicide in adolescence 19. Discussion on suicides and masochism in adolescence today through three clinical cases 20. Some reflections on the three papers of suicide and masochism in adolescence