1st Edition
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about parenting and find meaningful answers.
In this book, expert psychoanalyst Cayetano Castrillon-Garcia teaches you how to look beyond your child's spoken and non-verbal behavior to truly listen to them. By adopting the methods explored in the book, you will become open to new ideas on how to talk, act, and guide your child more effectively. This understanding will help your family grow together, avoid common misunderstandings, and create lasting, meaningful relationships. The book uses simple language and offers numerous examples from everyday reality, showing how everyone in the family can get to know each other better.
Whether your child is already in therapy, you’re considering it, or you simply want to enhance your parenting approach, this book provides invaluable insights and guidance to help you unlock your family’s full potential.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE AUTHOR’S NOTE PART ONE: THE JOURNEY INTO PARENTHOOD 1. INTRODUCTION 2. BECOMING MOM AND DAD 3. SON, YOU MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT: THE MYSTERY OF TEMPORARY DEAFNESS 4. THE MIRROR EFFECT: PROJECTING EXPECTATIONS AND EXPERIENCE 5. RECOGNIZING RED FLAGS IN CHILDREN PART TWO: GROWING AS PARENTS, THRIVING AS A FAMILY 6. DIVINE PARENTS OR HUMAN PARENTS 7. ACTION, REACTION, AND EXTERNALIZATION: UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR 8. ADOLESCENCE UNVEILED: WHAT ALL PARENTS COULD FIND USEFUL TO KNOW 9. BUILDING BRIDGES: COLLABORATIVE WORK BETWEEN PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND PSYCHOANALYSTS 10. THE ART OF DISCIPLINE: SETTING LIMITS WITHOUT BREAKING BONDS 11. WHEN PARENTS DISAGREE: TURNING CONFLICT INTO STRENGTH 12. FAMILY 3.0: PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE 13. TEACHING PATIENCE: BUILDING FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE 14. GRANDPARENTS: THEIR CRUCIAL PLACE IN THE MODERN FAMILY PART THREE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PARENTING 15. A FRUITLESS ENDEAVOR: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMOTIONAL VACCINE 16. FAMILY LEGACIES: WHAT WE PASS ON 17. PARENTS IN THERAPY: FIRST STEPS TOWARD INCLUSION 18. PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR PARENTS: HOW DO WE DO IT? BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Cayetano García-Castrillon Armengou is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Seville, Spain. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Spanish Society of Psychoanalysis, a member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
‘The author’s profound sophisticated knowledge of contemporary psychoanalytic …. and his enormous experience with child and parental conflicts, with a simple and clear, common sense, non-categorical style of parental consultation, without any psychoanalytic terminology or prescriptive affirmations. This approach differs from the usual “how to improve things” texts by appreciating parental willingness to insight in procedures that clearly lead to proven failure, stimulating parental curiosity why things don’t work out, and, in the process, motivating them to reach for new understanding.’
Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Weill Cornell Medical College; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research
