The challenge: despair and hope in the conquest of inner space : further studies of the psychoanalytic treatment of severely disturbed children

Prologue - An address to the board of directors. Part 1 - Diagnostic issues. 1 Cause of the illness or cause of the cure?. 2 The psychotic pursuit of reality. 3 Relationship betrween diagnosis and mode of intervention in states of severe impairment. 4 Inner and outer reality on the Rorschach. 5 Differential diagnostic cues in the severely impaired child. Part 2 - Treatment issues. e6 Prolegomonon to a psychoanalytic technique in the treatment of childhood schizophrenia. 7 Psychotic adolescents and their quest for goals. 8 Certain phenomenological aspects of the counter transference in the treatment of schizophrenic children. 9 Concerning psychotic action. 10 Identity formation in the treatment of an autistic child. 11 Story of Robert and how he got there: the development of object relations in the psychotherapeutic process with a borderline psychotic child. Part 3 - The dying and living of Teresa Esperanza. 12 Teresa. 13 The Orpheus and Eurydice theme in psychotherapy. 14 Object constancy and psychotic reconstruction. 15 The working alliance with angels, good spirits and deities. 16 One step beyond. 17 Notes on treatment of Teresa: assessment via psychological testing. Part 4 - Building of and work with the support systems. 18 Reflections on the need for a working alliance with environmental support systems. 19 Casework with psychotic children and their parents. 20 Parallel process as it emerges in casework. 21 The trap: the child's emotional illness as the external organizer of the family's life. Part 5 - Research issues. 22 On some current models in the psychoanalytic treatment of childhood psychosis. 23 Levels of verbal commiunication in the schizophrenic child's struggle. 24 To sleep but not to dream: on the use of electric tape recording in clinical research. 25 The onion and the Moebius strip: rational and irrational models for the secondary and primary process. 26 The relation of ego autonomy to activity and passivity in the psychotherapy of childhood schizophrenia

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