The Body and Compulsion from Infancy to Young Adulthood: New Perspectives on Addiction, Self-Harm and Suicide - Paperback

by Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (Editor), Mary T. Brady (Editor), Christine Franckx (Editor)

The Body and Compulsion from Infancy to Young Adulthood: New Perspectives on Addiction, Self-Harm and Suicide examines the complex interplay between early childhood experiences and the development of compulsive behaviours across the lifespan, with a focus on how these compulsions present from infancy to young adulthood.

Author Biography

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in New York City, USA. She is the series editor of the Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Book Series and the co-editor of A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure (2023), The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task (2022) and A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World (2017).

Mary T. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco. She is the author of Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf (2024) and the editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022), as well as author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015).

Christine Franckx is a child psychiatrist and training (child) analyst in the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society. She is the EU co-chair of COCAP. She works in private practice in Antwerp with adults, children and infants.

Fernando M. Gómez is a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child and adolescent psychoanalyst of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA), FEPAL, and IPA. He is the Latin America Co-Chair of COCAP and works in private practice in Buenos Aires with adults, children, and infants.