The intersubjective infant

Dianna Kenny, author of Bringing up Baby: the Psychoanalytic Infant Comes of Age, presents the evidence against the standard assumption that infants are 'merged' with the caregiver at birth.

Human canvas

\u200BDr. Paul Magee, Associate Professor of Poetry at The University of Canberra, presents 'Human Canvas', an in-depth review of Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, edited by Linda Clifton (Karnac Books, 2012).

Among others, the points raised by Dr. Magee include:
  • Lacan and the question of tradition and authority;
  • issues concerning child analysis;
  • the status of translated texts and the analysis of art.
Download and view: 'Human Canvas' by Dr. Paul Magee [PDF file, 84Kb].\u200B

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Dr. Paul Magee, Associate Professor of Poetry at The University of Canberra, presents 'Human Canvas', an in-depth review of Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, edited by Linda Clifton (Karnac Books, 2012).

Among others, the points raised by Dr. Magee include:
  • Lacan and the question of tradition and authority;
  • issues concerning child analysis;
  • the status of translated texts and the analysis of art.
Download and view: 'Human Canvas' by Dr. Paul Magee [PDF file, 84Kb].

The Language of Drawings - Author's notes

'We find many people who do not manage to put into words the sentiments they would like us to take into account and it is useful to know that drawing their experiences might give them a tool to express their thoughts and feelings.'

A.H. Brafman​ describes some of his original observations on the use of drawings in therapy, which proved the starting-point for a unique, new book.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy - Author's notes

Peter Blake, trained at the Tavistock in London, worked most of his life as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in Australia. He wrote this book about his own way of working, as a contribution to the further development of the field.

On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse, Reminiscence, and Cultural Ideal - Authors' notes

Leticia Franieck and Michael Günter discuss the latency period, between the Oedipal phase and the start of puberty. Using empirical research, they arrive at some revisions and refinements of basic psychoanalytic concepts.