Work With Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With Children And Adolescents

WORK WITH PARENTS The EFPP Clinical Monograph Series Editor-in-Chief: Associate Editors: John Tsiantis Brian Martindale (Adult Section) Didier Houzel (Child & Adolescent Section) Alessandro Bruni (Group Section) OTHER MONOGRAPHS IN THE SERIES Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents Supen/ision and Its Vicissitudes Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the Future Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process WORK WITH PARENTS Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents edited by John Tsiantis SENIOR EDITOR Siv Boalt Boethious Birgit Hallerfors Ann Horne Lydia Tischler Foreword by Margaret Rustin published by KARNAC BOOKS for The European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services First published in 2000 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd. Karnac Books Ltd. 6 Pembroke Buildings 118 Finchley Road NW 5HT 10 6RE LondonNW3 London Reprinted 2004 O 2000 by the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services The rights of the editors and contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with $5 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library 7 2 ISBN: 978 1 85575 241241 1 85575 www.karnacbooks.com Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts Printed & bound by Antony Rowe Ltd, Eastbourne ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to a number of people who have contributed significantly in the bringing of this Monograph to completion. First of all, I would like to express warm thanks to all the authors who contributed to this book. I also wish to express my special thanks to Philippa Martindale who worked hard to improve the text and reference section and to Eric King for the final copyediting. I would also like to express my thanks to the editorial committee. I am also most grateful for all the support and advice from Cesare Sacerdoti of Kamac Books. I would also like to express my thanks to Mary Kritikou and Zetta Iliopoulou for their secretarial assistance. Finally, the EFPP wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Research, Development, and Training Unit of the Special Care Department, Stockholm County Council, Sweden, for their generous financial contribution towards the costs of the production of this Monograph. John Tsiantis Athens, June 1999 ABOUT THE AUTHORS ATHANASSIOS ALEXANDRIDIS (Greece) is a psychiatrist and child psychiatrist. He trained in psychiatry and psychoanalysis in France, where he worked in the public sector. He obtained his PhD from the Philosophy Department of Salonika University. He is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at PERIVOLAKI Therapeutic U