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Ongoing efforts to integrate developmental insights and psychoanalytic practices require open-ended discussions about theory, technique, and specific clinical issues. This collection of articles, the 54th volume in the series, contributes to this discourse by addressing a wide range of topics related to this potential integration.
The essays all share the common purpose of clarifying our current developmental and psychoanalytic understandings of children and adolescents.
The range of subjects and perspectives presented emerges as a particular strength of this volume of essays. It begins with three case studies, each of which explores the author's psychoanalytic treatment of a child or teen suffering from some form of atypical development. Four theoretical pieces follow. These include an examination of mental change and three kinds of “unknowability” in psychoanalysis, a view of the role and function of the “real” psychoanalytic relationship, a look at the underlying forces that make development happen, and an interactional perspective on “healthy” narcissism.
The collection concludes with six articles, all focusing on different clinical issues. Given the diversity of subject matter and the limited space in which to summarize it, a deeper study of two of these articles may furnish a more satisfying glimpse into this substantial volume. Toward this end I will focus on Daniel J. Coleman's essay on the “Narrative Performance Mode (NPM) of Discourse,” and “Adolescents and Popular Culture: A Psychodynamic Overview,” by Debra S. Rosenblum, Peter Daniolos, Neal Kass, and Andres Martin. I was drawn to these pieces because they explore two topics, narrative and popular culture, respectively, that seem inherently