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The following articles were written by Aaron Lederer on the subjects of disturbing behaviors and the effects of attachment deficits.
Article 1The Unwanted Child
Disorders originating in the first two to three years of life stem from deficiencies in the infant's contact with the primary provider, usually the mother. Clients who carry these early deficits cannot have rewarding, close relationships. They believe they are unwanted and fundamentally unlovable. Early in their lives, many of them made certain specific internal structural adjustments to best survive in their deficient environments. These adjustments and their consequences are identified and explained, and transactional analysis treatment to obtain the necessary restructuring is outlined.
Article 2
The Unwanted Child Narcissistic Defense
In this article, the narcissistic defense is presented from the perspective of Spotnitz's (1985) modern psychoanalysis followed by a description of its second-order structural analysis correlate and a discussion of transactional analysis as a treatment to resolve this defense.
Article 3
The Unwanted Child's Narcissistic Defense Revisited
A recent article discusses a type of client referred to as the "Unwanted Child," whose injury originated in infancy and who characteristically cannot discharge his or her aggression toward the source of the frustration. Instead, these clients attach themselves, sometimes with dire consequences. This phenomenon is known in the modern psychoanalytic literature as the "narcissistic defense." This current article proposes that there is an important survival aim to the self-attack: to provide stimulation to the abandoned infant within and to keep it from deteriorating into marasmus and death.
Article 4
Corrective Emotional Communication in the Classroom
The Marquis DeLafayette Elementary School in Elizabeth, New Jersey (U.S.A.), serving an ethnically mixed, pre-K to eighth-grade population of 1200 pupils, has an unusually high percentage of "difficult" pupils and a disappointing overall academic performance. So last September, the school's principal, Dr. Caridad Alfaro, asked Counseling Associates to train one third of Lafayette's teachers in "Emotional Education in the Classroom," a program that offers communication tools designed to turn difficult children into cooperative and motivated pupils.
Led by Aaron Lederer, Counseling Associate's director and the principal developer of the training program (known for training parents to turn around their difficult children), Emotional Education in the Classroom was considered by the Elizabeth school district (American for LEA) as a pilot professional development program for its 29 schools.