This book focuses on work with children undertaken by the GERPEN (Groupe d'Études et de Recherches Psychoanalytiques pour le developpement de l'Enfant et du Nourisson) of Caen and Paris. It is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer's clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a regular basis over many years.



Despite his interest in the theoretical advances of psychoanalysis made during what he termed The Kleinian Development, Meltzer believed that clinical supervision was the only way to teach psychoanalytic practice. In effect, he treated supervision as an art form, just as he regarded psychoanalysis as an art form. The library of his supervision work, almost all recorded outside the UK, thus forms a valuable teaching model for future practitioners, as well as demonstrating Meltzer's wealth of insight into both character development and analytic technique.



With contributions by Catherine Druon, Didier Houzel, Bianca Lechevalier, Ann Levy, Antoine Meyer, Jeanne Pourrinet, and Rosella Sandri.



edited by Jacques Touze



CONTENTS

Foreword



Didier Houzel and Bianca Lechevalier



Translator's testimony



David Alcorn



Introduction



Meg Harris Williams



1. A child forgives the doctors



Bianca Lechevalier



2. First developmental steps in a five-year-old



Rosella Sandri



3. Technical problems with a child from a disturbed family



Catherine Druon



4. An expert creator of confusion



Jeanne Pourrinet



5. A child with autistic elements and undeveloped symbolic function



Didier Houzel



6. A delicate point in the therapy of an eleven-year-old



Ann Lévy



7. An autistic child begins his psychic life



Antoine Mayer



8. The task of psychoanalysis



Donald Meltzer



9. Symbols in psychoanalysis and mathematics



Donald Meltzer



Index