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In a short period of time, two books on child analysis have been published in the Nordic countries. Finnish child analyst Christel Airas has published her book in English under the title ‘Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. Treating Trauma, Anxiety and Aggression.’ In the same year, four Norwegian child analysts Evalina Ciapaité, Henrik Kamphus, Linda Johanne Rolfsen, and Ingeborg Aarseth published ‘Kammerspill. Barnet i psykoanalysen’ (Chamber Play: The Child in Psychoanalysis), in which they each authored several chapters. The editors of the book are Jon Morgan Stokkeland and Henrik Kamphus, who have written the foreword and introduction to the book, respectively. Henrik Kamphus places child analysis in Norway in the tradition of child psychotherapeutic work carried out at the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Institute with Nic Waal. He also highlights Stokkeland’s thesis on Donald Meltzer and the synergy effect that the editorial collaboration between them has had on the book, not least in that the language is Norwegian and several of the psychoanalytic thinkers and concepts referred to can be found with concise and enlightening explanations at the back of the book. This editorial approach has a lasting effect and will hopefully be widely disseminated among child therapists and others who work with children in the Nordic countries. Another merit is that Kamphus briefly reviews the tradition of Melanie Klein and her successors Donald Winnicott, Esther Bick, Wilfred Bion and Betty Joseph, which has influenced child analysis today. Françoise Dolto is another source of inspiration, albeit from a different tradition, the French one, and is given her own chapter at the end of the book, where we can follow her life and original thinking, written by Rolfsen.
The book is dedicated to child and adolescent psychoanalyst Anne Kristin Rustad, who, together with Kari K. Holm, took the initiative to develop child analysis training at the Norwegian Psychoanalytical Insti