Reference Material Concerning the Replacement Child Condition

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Anisfeld, L. & Richards, A. D. (2000). The Replacement Child, Variations on a Theme in History and Psychoanalysis. In: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , Vol. 55. New Haven/London: Yale University Press

Battat, R. & Brenner, A. (2020). Replacement Children, the Unconscious Script. Middletown, Insight Out Press

Cain, A. C. & Cain, B. S. (1964). On Replacing a Child. Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry , 3, pp. 443–456

Cardinal, M. (1983). The Words to Say It, translated by Pat Goodheart. Cambridge, MA. Van Vactor & Goodheart

Coles, P. (2003). The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis . London: Karnac

Green, A. (2011a). The Dead Mother. In: Life Narcissism/Death Narcissism . London/New York: Free Associations Books

Etchegoyen, A. (1997). Inhibition of Mourning and the Replacement Child Syndrome. In: Female Experience, edited by J. Raphael-Leff & R. Perelberg. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 198–215

Fraiberg, S. (1975). Ghosts in the Nursery . New York: Basic Books

Hirsch, M. (1997) Psychodynamics and the fateful identity of replacement children. English version offered to the replacementchildforum.com by the author. Original in: (1997) Schuld und Schuldgefühl – Psychoanalyse von Trauma und Introjekt. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

Jung, C. G. (1961). Memories, Dreams, Reflections (translated by Richard and Clara Winston, edited by Aniela Jaffe). HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Mackenzie, C. http://carolinemackenzie.co.uk/theartofgrieving
Mandel, J. (2013). Replacement Child: A Memoir . Berkeley, CA: Seal Press/Perseus Books

Mackenzie, C. http://carolinemackenzie.co.uk/theartofgrieving
Mandel, J. (2013). Replacement Child: A Memoir . Berkeley, CA: Seal Press/Perseus Books Group

Poznanski, E. O. (1972). The “Replacement Child”: A Saga of an Unresolved Grief. Journal of Behavioural Pediatrics , 81(6), 1190–1193

Raphael- Leff, J. (2007). Freud’s Prehistoric Matrix-Owing “Nature” a Death. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 88(6), 1345–1373

Rosen, G. (1982). Replacement Children: Expanding the Concept. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics , 3(4), 239–240

Sabbadini, A. (1988). The Replacement Child. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
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Schellinski, K. (2019). Individuation for Adult Replacement Children. Ways of Coming into Being, London/New York: Routledge
…(2014). Who Am I? Journal of Analytical Psychology , (59), 189–211. Oxford: Wiley Press.
…(2006). La mort entra comme un voleur, “La Quête du Soi chez l’enfant

de remplacement”. In: L’Enfant, La Vouivre, L’Enfant, Culture et Pensée Jungienne, Vol. 15. Genève: Georg Éditions

Spielrein, S. (1912/1994). Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being. Journal of Analytical Psychology , 39, 155–186

Üstündag-Budak, A. (2015). The replacement child syndrome following stillbirth: a reconsideration. Enfance, (3), pp. 351-364

Vollmann, S. R. (2014). A legacy of loss: stories of replacement dynamics and the subsequent child, OMEGA, Vol. 69(3) pp. 219-247

Volkan, V. & Ast, G. (1997). Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology . Madison, CT: International Universities Press

Wardi, D. (1992). Memorial Candles: The Children of the Holocaust , translated by N. Goldblum. New York: Routledge