Abstract
This article introduces several articles (in this current issue) centered on contemporary, psychoanalytically informed clinical treatments of children and adolescents. In doing so, it revisits the concept of expansionism in psychoanalytic self psychology and underscores a new type of “expansionism”: The application of contemporary theories to non-psychoanalytic clinical milieus, particularly those pertaining to contexts of working with children and adolescents.
Notes
1I am indebted to Nancy VanDerHeide and to Kristen Leishman for their invaluable editorial suggestions in the preparation of this manuscript.