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📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of...
17/12/2025

📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’
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📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst’ by Marta Badoni

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“When the presence of a transgenerational mandate predominates over other themes, the child analyst does indeed have to work in unusual circumstances.

The fact that the parents have unconsciously given their child the burden of solving a conflict which they themselves have been unable to faced up to, or that they have unwittingly passed on to him/her a secret of their own, ends up making the child a marginal presence to the point that it is often difficult for the parents to bring him/her to analysis.

The request for consultation becomes charged with pressing expectations of solving the symptom and quickly restoring the family homoeostasis.

A child who finds him/herself entangled in these mechanisms can grow up fearing thinking or even in a situation where thinking becomes impossible. The perceptive system also suffers, since the child cannot find confirmation in the perception of his/her own experiences, the capacity to represent is reduced and his/her mental existence is therefore threatened. Not being subjected to transformation, emotions suffer a double destiny: they become somatic facts and turn into excessive excitement.

The extreme excitement in such children is a sign of too much and too little: intrusion that keeps the child in a state of constant threat, and absence that arouses separation anxieties.”

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12/12/2025

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📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of...
10/12/2025

📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’
AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER

📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst’ by Marta Badoni

🔗To purchase the book, click here:
https://ow.ly/VUBO50XBX1Y

“I am in a session with a child of about 4 years old. Among the toys is a ball, part of the setting as an invitation to play. What happens, however, takes us to an unknown and perturbing place: the child takes the ball and throws it with all his strength. The ball bounces off into the room, and, after zig-zagging through various obstacles, comes back and stops at our feet.

To my great surprise, the child, to get back the ball where it is lying, very close to both of us, rather than taking the short, intuitively immediate route, that of proximity, like a puppy following its sense of smell might do, follows the entire bumpy path that the ball has taken. He follows the trail fascinated, intent on not getting lost, tracing the same path as the ball, as if on precise instructions.

Here the ball is an object of fascination, rather than an instrument of play. Bewitched by the movement of the ball, the child becomes caught up in its movement… Amazed and lost, I realise that I am out of the game.

I question myself: we are dealing here with an autistic child and his playful activity seems to me to be guided by his senses rather than by any desire to play. It is a sensory pathway that excludes contact…”

📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of...
03/12/2025

📢Coming soon from ‘The New Library of Psychoanalysis’

AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER
📖‘Taking Oneself Playfully: Narrative of a Psychoanalyst’
By Marta Badoni

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📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe CivitareseExploring the impact o...
26/11/2025

📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis
📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe Civitarese

Exploring the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other.
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📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe CivitareseExploring the impact o...
19/11/2025

📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis
📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe Civitarese

Exploring the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other.
🔗To purchase the book, click here:
https://ow.ly/vP1b50Xq7V2

🗓️Sylvia Payne was born on the 6th November, 1880.One of the first women analysts in Britain; later President of the BPA...
18/11/2025

🗓️Sylvia Payne was born on the 6th November, 1880.
One of the first women analysts in Britain; later President of the BPAS and influential in training policy. The photo of Payne is from our archive collections by the Viennese photographer Lotte Meitner-Graf.

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Join us for upcoming Child and Adolescent Analysis events! Just announced, 28th November Under 3's with Gianna Williams ...
13/11/2025

Join us for upcoming Child and Adolescent Analysis events! Just announced, 28th November Under 3's with Gianna Williams in discussion with Kate Pugh: ''Painfully precious and painfully envious relationships'.'

21 November
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28 November
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📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe CivitareseExploring the impact o...
12/11/2025

📢 Just released from The New Library of Psychoanalysis
📖 ‘The Hour of Birth’ by Giuseppe Civitarese

Exploring the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other.
🔗To purchase the book, click here:
https://ow.ly/c2Un50Xq7Os

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