Animals in Child Development, Psychiatry, and Therapy
Explore the multifaceted relationships between children and animals, from development and pathology to therapeutic techniques. Delve into the inherent kinship children feel toward animals, the role of animals in mental health disorders, and how pets are integrated into psychotherapy for various age groups and conditions.
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ANIMALS: DEVELOPMENT, PATHOLOGY, TECHNIQUE Salman Akhtar Professor of Psychiatry Sidney Kimmel Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University, Training and Supervising Analyst Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
ANIMALS Children have no scruples over allowing animals to rank as their full equals. Uninhibited as they are in the avowal of their bodily needs, they no doubt feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders, who may be a puzzle to them Sigmund Freud
ANIMALS DEVELOPMENT Child s inherent kinship to animals Children s storybooks and nursery rhymes Family pets Rural vs urban exposure to animals
ANIMALS PATHOLOGY Delusions & hallucinations Lycanthropy Culture-bound syndromes Sexual perversions including animals
ANIMALS PATHOLOGY (cont.) Involvement of animals in personality disorders Obsessions and phobias Animal hoarding Childhood psychiatric disorders
ANIMALS TREATMENT Acquisition of pets during psychotherapy The therapist s pets Animal metaphors Pet-therapy (elderly patients, or those with autism)
