What to Do If the Mind Does Not Develop

Preface -- Prologue -- Method of Enquiry -- Introduction to Part I -- The mind model of child psychoanalysis in clinical work with children -- An example of psychoanalytic consultation with children: the clinical case of Carlotta (C) -- The eyes and the mind (1): on the observational processes in clinical work with children -- Clinical Findings -- What can be done if the mind does not develop? Encountering bi-dimensionality and absence of meaning while working with child and adolescent psychotics -- Is it possible to interpret autistic material in the way we interpret dreams? -- Thomas (T), the child trapped in a âdeaf and dumbâ Pinocchio-like body: in between a disembodied mind and a dehumanised body -- Suzanne (S), a Goldilocks-like spiteful little girl: the growth of a new concept of self through the birth of imagination -- Rebecca (Re), the child kissed by the Snow Queen: lifeline and perspective as symbolic forms -- Implications -- The eyes and the mind (2): the exercise of knowing the self and the other -- In the clearing of being: the difficult discovery of shared meanings in the process of weaning from therapy in a patient suffering from pervasive developmental disorder -- Areas of conceptual and methodological development -- the alpha-function -- the notion of reverie -- the notion of reversal of the alpha-function -- the clinical phenomenon of negative contagion -- the notion of part object -- compositional aspects of communication -- the concepts of misconception and disorientation in object relations -- the concept of claustrum -- the concepts of intransigent and faulty objects -- significant form and aesthetic emotion -- perspective as a symbolic âformâ