Meltzer in Paris

Edited by Jacques Touzé

Book cover: Meltzer in Paris

Extent: 254, 254 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2020)

ISBN: 9781912567720

5.94 x 9.06 inches

Price: $41.00

Out of stock

This book focuses on work with children undertaken by the GERPEN (Groupe d’Études et de Recherches Psychoanalytiques pour le developpement de l’Enfant et du Nourisson) of Caen and Paris.


This book focuses on work with children undertaken by the GERPEN (Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches Psychoanalytiques pour le developpement de l’Enfant et du Nourisson) of Caen and Paris. It is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a regular basis over many years. Despite his interest in the theoretical advances of psychoanalysis made during what he termed The Kleinian Development, Meltzer believed that clinical supervision was the only way to teach psychoanalytic practice. In effect, he treated supervision as an art form, just as he regarded psychoanalysis as an art form. The library of his supervision work, almost all recorded outside the UK, thus forms a valuable teaching model for future practitioners, as well as demonstrating Meltzer’s wealth of insight into both character development and analytic technique.

Foreword Didier Houzel and Bianca Lechevalier Translator's testimony David Alcorn Introduction Meg Harris Williams 1. A child forgives the doctors Bianca Lechevalier 2. First developmental steps in a five-year-old Rosella Sandri 3. Technical problems with a child from a disturbed family Catherine Druon 4. An expert creator of confusion Jeanne Pourrinet 5. A child with autistic elements and undeveloped symbolic function Didier Houzel 6. A delicate point in the therapy of an eleven-year-old Ann Levy 7. An autistic child begins his psychic life Antoine Mayer 8. The task of psychoanalysis Donald Meltzer 9. Symbols in psychoanalysis and mathematics Donald Meltzer Index About the Supervisor,

CONTENTS

Foreword
Didier Houzel and Bianca Lechevalier

Translator’s testimony
David Alcorn

Introduction
Meg Harris Williams

1. A child forgives the doctors
Bianca Lechevalier

2. First developmental steps in a five-year-old
Rosella Sandri

3. Technical problems with a child from a disturbed family
Catherine Druon

4. An expert creator of confusion
Jeanne Pourrinet

5. A child with autistic elements and undeveloped symbolic function
Didier Houzel

6. A delicate point in the therapy of an eleven-year-old
Ann Lévy

7. An autistic child begins his psychic life
Antoine Mayer

8. The task of psychoanalysis
Donald Meltzer

9. Symbols in psychoanalysis and mathematics
Donald Meltzer

Index

  • Edited by Jacques Touzé