Discusses whether psychoanalysis - with its mix of clinical experiences and conceptualizations of early development and symptoms - has something unique to offer through deepening the understanding of children suffering from this and similar developmental disturbances.

Preface , Introduction , Controversies on different approaches in psychoanalytic research on early development and ADHD , Early Development and Its Disturbances , Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Discussion of Peter Fonagy's Paper , Coping with children's temperament , Discussion of William B. Carey's Paper , Motion and meaning: Psychoanalytic inquiry of so-called ADHD children , Discussion of Heidi Staufenberg's Paper , Further comments on Sophia's mimetic autism, with special reference to Bion's theory of thinking , Discussion of Jorge L. Ahumada and Luisa C. Busch De Ahumada's Paper , Early affect regulations and its disturbances: Approaching ADHD in a psychoanalysis with a child and an adult , Psychoanalytic Research: Hopes, Views, Controversial Discussion , Logic, meaning, and truth in psychoanalytic research , Trauma or drive-drive and trauma: Revisited , Pluralism in theory and in research-and what now? 1 A plea for connectionism , New orleans congress panel: What does conceptual research have to offer?