Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by young people worldwide.
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by young people worldwide.
Each chapter provides a theoretical exploration of our psychically and socially damaging collective reality and offers practical support to psychoanalysts working to create safe spaces in a world that feels fundamentally unlivable for many young people. Case studies span the Ukraine and Palestine/Israel conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis and forced displacement as a result of climate catastrophe. Contributors explore the active impact of these devastating events, including the pervasive hopelessness suffered by young people deprived of agency and a viable future, through first-hand accounts of working with children and adolescents in conflict zones. Drawing on the work of Bion, Winnicott, Judith Butler and others, these essays offer hope by showing the important role that psychoanalytic work can play in restoring the capacity for psychic development, resilience and meaning making.
Part of the Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis series, this book is an essential read for all psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, caregivers, teachers, social workers and academics.
Foreword
Kristin Fiorella
Part One: War
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter One: War, Trauma and the Survival of Hope in Palestine: What We Learn
from its Children
Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger
Chapter Two: Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Universe
to Children Affected by Violence
Martha Bragin
Chapter Three: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Evacuated Parents and Children
during the First Weeks of the October 7th War
Ruth Weinberg
Chapter Four: Minds in the Line of Fire: Mothers During the War
Kateryna Abashkina, Kateryna Alpatova,Tetiana Stasiuk, Anastasya Svinarchuk,
and Emanuela Quagliata
Chapter Five: Children in a World at War
Monica Cardenal
Chapter Six: Theres a Hole in Daddys Arm: Making Contact with Opiod
Epidemic in Clinical Practice
Ben Fife
Chapter Seven: Forbidden Games: Anti War Manifesto:
Ana Belchior Melicias
Chapter Eight: Totalitarian Regimes and a Childs Mind: Cria Cuervos
Mary Brady, Ana Belchior Melicias, Virginia Unger, and Adriana Prengler
Chapter Nine: The Need for Truth in Healthy Psychic Development
Antonia Grimalt
Part Two: Pandemic
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Ten: Other Lullabies: Attacks on Blackness, Confusion of Tongues, and
the Loss of Play
Carlos Padron
Chapter Eleven: Caring for Cryptnids: Welcoming the More-Than-Human into
Psychoanalytic Treatment
Kathleen Del Mar Miller
Chapter Twelve: Adolescents in the Line of Fire: Between Chaos, Ideals, and
Psychic Reality Today in the Adolescent Subjectivation Process
Fernando Gomez
Chapter Thirteen: S.O.S. Brasil
Alicia Beatriz Dorado de Lisondo
Chapter Fourteen: On Psychic Envelopes and Spaces for Young Children during
the Pandemic
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
Part Three: Climate Change
Introduction
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Fifteen: Eco-Anxiety in Children and Young People- A Rational
Response, Irreconciliable Despair, or Both?
Caroline Hickman
Chapter Sixteen:The Climate Crisis and the Unnatural Body:
Onto-epistemological Possibilities and Threats of the Genders of Children and
Adolescents
Kristin Fiorella
Chapter Seventeen: Climate Anxiety, Maturational Loss, and Adversarial
Growth
Panu Pihkala
Chapter Eighteen: Dwelling and the Climate Crisis: A Developmental
Perspective and its Implications
Ryan Lamothe
Chapter Nineteen: The Climate Crisis: The Impact of Fragile Identificatory
Models on Adolescence
Christine Franckx
Kristin Fiorella, Psy.D., MFT, MFA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the faculties of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.