Francoise Dolto, the French Child Psychoanalyst Emerging from the Shadows
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21630262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein (Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse, Vienna, Austria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-229 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychoanalytic Dialogues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1048-1885 • E-ISSN: 1940-9222 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10481885.2024.2320944 |
| OpenAlex | W4395015552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This text attempts to underscore the significant role of Francoise Dolto, the French child psychoanalyst, working with traumatized children during and after World War II. Being mostly known as a friend and colleague of Jacques Lacan, her own original clinical work was often overshadowed by the more prominent psychoanalysts on the French scene. Francoise Dolto could be considered as working in a relational mode, but more importantly, she truly put the concept of the symbolic to work, speaking to infants from the beginnings of their lives in an adult language, always invoking and including the instance of the law and the Third in her analytic work
Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |