ABSTRACT
Originally presented as the plenary presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis in Denver, 2016, this is a report of a portion of a psychoanalytic treatment of an adopted adolescent with learning disabilities and ADHD who is moving into emerging adulthood. Innovative features of the therapeutic action are highlighted, as the analyst describes the “turning points” in the forward shifts of the analytic work.
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1. For the purpose of protecting confidentiality, some of the details of the treatment and Grace’s life are disguised.
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Claudia Lament
Claudia Lament, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Association of New York, an affiliate of The New York University Langone School of Medicine; the Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child; and the President of The Anna Freud Foundation.