Children's phantasies : the shaping of relationships

Foreword - Hanna Segal. Part 1 - Good, bad and enough: some basic processes in the paranoid-schizoid position. 1 Splitting and idealization. 2 Feeling good, having enough and not fearing the other. Part 2 - Aggression, expression and love: development through the depressive position. 3 Aggression and regression. 4 Symbol formation, symbolic equation and the development of interests. 5 Reparation and restoration. Part 3 - Anxiety and independence: the Oedipal position and the emergence of the sufficient ego. 6 An uneasy bedtime and two bad mornings: some anxieties of the early Oedipal. 7 Achieving an independent self: some problems of adolescence. Part 4 - Feeling, thought and creativity: the interdependence of phantasy and learning. 8 Psychotic moments, thinking and reasoning. 9 Reparation, sublimation, learning and play with art materials. Part 5 -Play psychotherapy: theory and practice. 10 Some basic patterns of play psychotherapy. 11 The snake family: excerpts from play psychotherapy sessions with a ten-year-old boy

'Weininger...illustrates in this book the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children, normal, neurotic, or psychotic, in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children, the family milieu or play therapy. He uses Melanie Klein's developmental theory and shows the evolution of phantasies in teir content , in the way they are symbolized and their functioning in terms of the child's evolution from the paranoid-schizoid position tot he depressive sposition and the Oedipus complex.' --Foreword by Hanna Segal

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