Vol 25 (1) 2007
A child is killed – Sara Bergmans
Residential Work within Special Youth Care – Steven Van Daele
The “ontranding” of the psyche – Jeroen Donckers
Overwhelming encounters in Fioretti: On the necessity of the outside for living and working in a child and youth psychiatric ward – Veroniek Knockaert
The nature of the tension between Pedagogic Norms and Psychoanalytic Ethics. Clinical reflections based on work with a seventeen year-old adolescent. – Jens Callens
Working with youth and echoes from the social discourse – Daniëlla Provost
What can educators do with psychoanalysis in their daily institutional practice within a community? On the infantile roots of the desire of the educator. – Peter Walleghem
Attachment and Mentalization
In the past twenty years, attachment research with children and adults has yielded a lot of information on how implicit relational patterns are transferred from parents to their children in the first year of life. A psychoanalytic theory, useful for the treatment of...
What can educators do with psychoanalysis in their daily institutional practice within a community? On the infantile roots of the desire of the educator.
The central focus of this article is the psychoanalytically orientated day-to-day educational work in an institution. We approach this problem from the concept of desire and pose two questions. The first concerns the transference of psychoanalysis in an institution....
Working with youth and echoes from the social discourse
The author explores working with adolescents in three different settings: non-voluntary therapy for drug addicts; a centre for homeless men and women; and a youth information centre. With regard to each of these groups, we tend to encounter similar discourses. And...
The nature of the tension between Pedagogic Norms and Psychoanalytic Ethics. Clinical reflections based on work with a seventeen year-old adolescent.
The author focuses on the ethical aspects of work in an institution with youngsters whose problematic behaviour deviates from societal norms. A central element in this work concerns tension in the relationship between pedagogical norms and psychoanalytical ethics. The...
Overwhelming encounters in Fioretti: On the necessity of the outside for living and working in a child and youth psychiatric ward
This paper witnesses the author’s first experience with child and youth psychiatry. It starts from a description of the architecture of Fioretti as space constitutes a fundamental dimension in which clinical phenomena become readable. The initially overwhelming effect...
The “ontranding” of the psyche
This article deals with the necessary dynamic between the psyche or movement and the object. The notion of movement serves as a material conception of the psyche, in the same way as the drive, the life-drive and language are material: they exist on the basis of a...
Residential Work within Special Youth Care
Based on personal experience in a residential setting for adolescent boys within special youth care, the author connects the ‘being difficult to guide’ label of some youngsters, which often results in exclusion from care, to a ‘not wanting’ on the one hand and a...
A child is killed
The author begins his argument by confronting child murder in the real: in clinical work, in the media, in historical accounts of rituals. Studying ritual child murder within the Inca culture, together with stories of child murder throughout history, allows the author...