Individuation for Adult Replacement Children

Schellinski combines Jungian theory with research from over 20 years of clinical practice to demonstrate how adult replacement children who suffer from physical and psychological distress can rediscover the essence of their being in the transformative process of individuation.

Kristina E. Schellinski, M.A., is a supervising and teaching analyst with the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich, Küsnacht, and ISAP, the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zürich, Switzerland. She works with adults in private practice in Geneva and is a lecturer and consultant of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) Psychiatry Department, author of professional articles and speaker at international conferences. From 1983 to 1998, she worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in New York and Geneva. Her website can be found at kristina-schellinski.com and at adult-replacement-children.com.

Foreword by Murray Stein; Foreword by Albert C. Cain; Prologue by Kristina E. Schellinski; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Discovery of the Replacement Child Condition; Chapter 3: Famous Replacement Children in Psychoanalysis; Chapter 4: In the Beginning: Early Bonding, Attachment and Relation to Self; Chapter 5: Identity - a Question of Life or Death?; Chapter 6: Working through Grief; Chapter 7: Different Strands of Guilt in the Replacement Child; Chapter 8: Confronting Difficult Aspects of Shadow; Chapter 9: From Missing Other Towards Union with Self; Chapter 10: Treatment, Prevention and Transgenerational Transmission; Chapter 11: Concluding Reflections on Transformation