The Thinking Heart : Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children (Paperback)

Alvarez, Introduction. Alvarez, Levels of Therapeutic Work and Levels of Pathology: The Work of Calibration. Alvarez, Section 1: Explanatory Level Conditions. Alvarez, Fiurgiule, Some Emotional Conditions for the Development of a Capacity for a Type of Two-Tracked Thinking in Infancy: Thinking in Parenthesis, the Sense of Agency and the Sense of Abundance. Alvarez, Obstructions to and Developments Toward Sequential Thinking: Some Connections Between Phantasy, Thinking and Walking. Alvarez, Making Links and Making Time: Steps Toward the De-Compression of Thoughts and the Establishment of Links Between Thoughts. Alvarez, Section 2: Descriptive Level Conditions. Alvarez, The Equal Role of Delight and Connectedness, Frustration and Separateness in the Development of a Sense of Reality: Technical Implications. Alvarez, States of Torment and Despair: Moral Imperatives and Rectifications in Work with Borderline Children. The Grammar of Wishes or the Grammar of Needs? Alvarez, Motiveless Malignity: Problems in the Psychotherapy of Patients with Psychopathic Features. Alvarez, Issues of Narcissism, Self-Worth, and the Relation to the Object: The Therapist’s Response to Being Seen as Stupid ? A Devalued or Unvalued Object? Alvarez, Types of Sexual Transference and Countertransference in Psychotherapeutic Work with Children and Adolescents. Alvarez, Under-Integration and Integrations at the Paranoid-Schizoid Level. Alvarez, Section 3: Intensified Level. Alvarez, Play and the Imagination: Where Pathological Play May Demand a More Intensified Response from the Therapist. Alvarez, Finding the Wavelength: Tools in Communication with Children with Autism. Alvarez, Further Reflections: Transference, Countertransference, the Paranoid and Schizoid Positions, and Some Speculations on Parallels with Neuroscience.