Fearful Symmetry

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick are child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysts on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. They have been working with children and families for 35 years and joined other colleagues to found a non-profit psychoanalytic school, Allen Creek Preschool, in Ann Arbor. Both Jack and Kerry Novick have written extensively.

• Chapter 1 Beating Fantasies in ChildrenChapter 2 The Essence of MasochismChapter 3 Masochism and the Delusion of Omnipotence from a Developmental PerspectiveChapter 4 Postoedipal Transformations: Latency, Adolescence, and PathogenesisChapter 5 Projection and ExternalizationChapter 6 Varieties of Transference in the Analysis of an AdolescentChapter 7 Externalization as a Pathological Form of Relating: The Dynamic Underpinnings of AbuseChapter 8 Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: The Suicide SequenceChapter 9 A "Boo Warning": Ego Disruption in an Abused Little GirlChapter 10 "I Hate You for Saving My Life": Borrowed Trauma in the Analysis of a Young AdultChapter 11 Talking with ToddlersChapter 12 Negative Therapeutic Motivation and Negative Therapeutic AllianceChapter 13 Deciding on Termination: The Relevance of Child and Adolescent Analytic Experience to Work with AdultsChapter 14 Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an "Interminable" AnalysisChapter 15 Sadomasochism and the Therapeutic Alliance: Implications for Clinical Technique