Jorge Canestri, M.D, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. Training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Mary S. Sigourney Award recipient 2004. Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University. Editor of the Educational Section of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. Has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in books and reviews including 'Language, Symbolisation and Psychosis'. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is Vice Chair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, and head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemology and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary discourse with embodied cognitive science, educational sciences, and modern German literature. Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.

• Preface , Introduction , Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic research on early development and ADHD , Early Development and Its Disturbances , Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Coping with children's temperament , Discussion of William B. Carey's Paper , Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry of so-called ADHD children , Discussion of Heidi Staufenberg's Paper , Further comments on Sophia's mimetic autism, with special reference to Bion's theory of thinking , Discussion of Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch De Ahumada's Paper , Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult , Psychoanalytic Research: Hopes, Views, Controversial Discussion , Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research , Trauma or drive—drive and trauma: Revisited , Pluralism in theory and in research—and what now? 1 A plea for connectionism , New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual research have to offer?

'This volume is long overdue. It provides indisputable research evidence to support what psychoanalysts have know for decades - that a monocausal etiological model to explain so complex a self-regulatory disorder as ADHD is inadequate. Now we have the evidence to justify a psychoanalytic treatment of these patients, even those who do benefit from stimulant medication. Kudos to the editors and their colleagues for providing research evidence to illustrate the continued applicability of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment to syndromes that often have a constitutional basis.'- Alan Sugarman, PhD, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego'We have waited a long time for such a book! Looking from different points of view at early development, this volume is very interesting for the clinician and for the researcher. It especially highlights the developmental basis and psychopathology of the syndrome called ADHD (consisting of the three symptoms: attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsivity), and shows what psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can contribute to a favorable development of these children.'- Prof. Dr. Dieter Burgin, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatriy, University of Basel; Training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society; internationally well-known researcher on early child development

Jorge Canestri, M.D, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. Training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Mary S. Sigourney Award recipient 2004. Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University. Editor of the Educational Section of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. Has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in books and reviews including 'Language, Symbolisation and Psychosis'. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is Vice Chair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, and head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemology and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary discourse with embodied cognitive science, educational sciences, and modern German literature. Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.

• Preface , Introduction , Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic research on early development and ADHD , Early Development and Its Disturbances , Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Coping with children's temperament , Discussion of William B. Carey's Paper , Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry of so-called ADHD children , Discussion of Heidi Staufenberg's Paper , Further comments on Sophia's mimetic autism, with special reference to Bion's theory of thinking , Discussion of Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch De Ahumada's Paper , Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult , Psychoanalytic Research: Hopes, Views, Controversial Discussion , Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research , Trauma or drive—drive and trauma: Revisited , Pluralism in theory and in research—and what now? 1 A plea for connectionism , New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual research have to offer?

'This volume is long overdue. It provides indisputable research evidence to support what psychoanalysts have know for decades - that a monocausal etiological model to explain so complex a self-regulatory disorder as ADHD is inadequate. Now we have the evidence to justify a psychoanalytic treatment of these patients, even those who do benefit from stimulant medication. Kudos to the editors and their colleagues for providing research evidence to illustrate the continued applicability of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment to syndromes that often have a constitutional basis.'- Alan Sugarman, PhD, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego'We have waited a long time for such a book! Looking from different points of view at early development, this volume is very interesting for the clinician and for the researcher. It especially highlights the developmental basis and psychopathology of the syndrome called ADHD (consisting of the three symptoms: attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsivity), and shows what psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can contribute to a favorable development of these children.'- Prof. Dr. Dieter Burgin, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatriy, University of Basel; Training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society; internationally well-known researcher on early child development

Jorge Canestri, M.D, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. Training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Mary S. Sigourney Award recipient 2004. Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University. Editor of the Educational Section of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. Has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in books and reviews including 'Language, Symbolisation and Psychosis'. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is Vice Chair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, and head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemology and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary discourse with embodied cognitive science, educational sciences, and modern German literature. Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.

• Preface , Introduction , Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic research on early development and ADHD , Early Development and Its Disturbances , Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Coping with children's temperament , Discussion of William B. Carey's Paper , Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry of so-called ADHD children , Discussion of Heidi Staufenberg's Paper , Further comments on Sophia's mimetic autism, with special reference to Bion's theory of thinking , Discussion of Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch De Ahumada's Paper , Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult , Psychoanalytic Research: Hopes, Views, Controversial Discussion , Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research , Trauma or drive—drive and trauma: Revisited , Pluralism in theory and in research—and what now? 1 A plea for connectionism , New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual research have to offer?

'This volume is long overdue. It provides indisputable research evidence to support what psychoanalysts have know for decades - that a monocausal etiological model to explain so complex a self-regulatory disorder as ADHD is inadequate. Now we have the evidence to justify a psychoanalytic treatment of these patients, even those who do benefit from stimulant medication. Kudos to the editors and their colleagues for providing research evidence to illustrate the continued applicability of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment to syndromes that often have a constitutional basis.'- Alan Sugarman, PhD, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego'We have waited a long time for such a book! Looking from different points of view at early development, this volume is very interesting for the clinician and for the researcher. It especially highlights the developmental basis and psychopathology of the syndrome called ADHD (consisting of the three symptoms: attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsivity), and shows what psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can contribute to a favorable development of these children.'- Prof. Dr. Dieter Burgin, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatriy, University of Basel; Training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society; internationally well-known researcher on early child development