More Light for a Darker Age: Contextualist Sensibilities in Child and Adolescent Treatment

Author: Coburn William  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1555-1024

Source: International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Vol.6, Iss.1, 2011-01, pp. : 1-3

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Abstract

This article introduces several articles (in this current issue) centered on contemporary, psychoanalytically informed clinical treatments of children and adolescents. In doing so, it revisits the concept of expansionism in psychoanalytic self psychology and underscores a new type of “expansionism”: The application of contemporary theories to non-psychoanalytic clinical milieus, particularly those pertaining to contexts of working with children and adolescents.