Child and Adolescent Analysis - Clinical Work Discussion Seminar | 15th November

The child analyst as a ‘new developmental object’ to a developmentally delayed young child. 

This paper considers the nature of psychoanalytic treatment for children where there is severe developmental delay in the context of intergenerational trauma. From a variety of theoretical positions, the author discusses a case of a young child for whom psychoanalytic treatment was not originally intended but who, for institutional reasons concerned with the training needs of a trainee, was seen in three times per week psychoanalytic child psychotherapy for a number of years. The chapter examines the notion of the child analyst as a new developmental object to such a child, locating its origin within the Anna Freudian tradition but making links both to Winnicottian concepts and also post Bionian elaboration of the nature of the analyst’s mental functioning in the analytic setting.

Angela Joyce is Fellow, and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Child Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre, worked there for 20 years and was a founding member of the pioneering Parent-Infant Project applying psychoanalysis to working with babies and their families and jointly led the child psychotherapy service. She has recently retired from full time analytic practice in London.

She is the current chair of the child and adolescent training committee at the BPAS and member of its Education Committee; past Chair and current trustee of the Winnicott Trust; a Trustee of the Squiggle Foundation; and has been an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. 

She teaches widely and particularly in Winnicottian studies, child analysis and psychotherapy and she has published in these areas over a number of years. Amongst other publications she has edited together with Lesley Caldwell Reading Winnicott for the New Library of Psychoanalysis teaching series (2011); edited the papers from the 2015 conference Donald Winnicott and the History of the Present. Together with the Parent Infant Project team at the Anna Freud Centre she contributed to their books Claiming the Baby (2005 & 2015), Early Relational Trauma (2009), and Working with Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (2019).

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