Stephanie Farrelly Quinn is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Co. Louth. She is a course leader and tutor on Early Years Education and Social Care programmes within Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education, Dublin. She is a member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland and is a member of the Training Committee within the organisation.
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)