Ms Viviane Green — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

I am a registered practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist (BPC, BPF and ACP) working (in English and French) with children, adolescents and adults. For several years I worked in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the NHS where I initiated a child psychotherapy service in an inner city school. From 1999 – 2009 I was Head of Child Psychotherapy Training at the Anna Freud Centre London. I have developed and taught on child psychotherapy training programmes in Europe, South America and latterly China. I have been involved in the profession as Vice Chair of the ACP Training Council and as Co Editor of the Journal for Child Psychotherapy. In addition to lecturing at Birkbeck I have been a guest lecturer for the MSc on Developmental Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis, Yale/UCL/Anna Freud Centre.

Research

Research overview

I am interested in the problems and possibilities of integrating accounts of emotional development drawing on a range biopsychosocial frameworks as reflected in a book I edited Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Attachment Theory - Creating Connections. (Hove:Brunner-Routledge. (2003) More recently, the focus has been on how a multi-perspective framework can inform a psychodynamic assessment and formulation.

I have a specific interest in clinical issues linked to the transmission of intergenerational trauma and a multi perspectives approach in understanding the growth of the capacity for empathy and its links to pathology. Parallel interests are the ways in which new findings can inform clinical practice and shape our understanding of psychic change. Practice based interest is in how psychodynamic understanding can be widely applied by a range of practitioners working in diverse contexts in ways which leads to best practice.

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

Clinical Thinking (SSPA028S7)
Basic Psychodynamic & Organizational theory, skills & principles of practice (Children and Adolescents) (SSPA049S7)
Evidence Based Practice (level 7) (SSPA086S7)

Publications

Article

Grossfeld, M. and Calderón, A. and O’Keeffe, S. and Green, Viviane and Midgley, N. (2019) Short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a depressed adolescent with borderline personality disorder: an empirical, single case study. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 45 (2), pp. 209-228. ISSN 0075-417X.
Davids, J. and Green, Viviane and Joyce, A. and McLean, D. (2017) Revised provisional diagnostic profile: 2016. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 16 (2), pp. 149-157. ISSN 1528-9168.
Green, Viviane and Joyce, A. (2017) Revised diagnostic profile 2016: revisions, rationale and further thoughts. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 16 (2), pp. 138-148. ISSN 1528-9168.
Green, Viviane (2015) Discussion of Hughes’ “There’s No Such Thing as a Whole Story”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 16 (3), pp. 170-178. ISSN 1524-0657.
Green, Viviane (2015) Discussion of Hughes’ “There’s No Such Thing as a Whole Story”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 16 (3), pp. 170-178. ISSN 1524-0657.
Green, Viviane (2013) Grief in two guises: "Mourning and melancholia" revisited. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 39 (1), pp. 76-89. ISSN 0075-417X.
Green, Viviane (2003) Objet de transfert. objet de developpement dans la cure psychanalytique de l'enfant. Le Journal de La Societe Europeene de la Psychanalyse de L'Enfant et de L'Adolescent pp. 11-30.
Crockatt, G. and Davies, M. and Green, Viviane and Wilson, P. (2001) Commentaries on 'the symbolism of the story of Lot and his wife'. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 27 (1), pp. 35-46. ISSN 0075-417X.
Green, Viviane (1997) L'approcio al caso dell'Anna Freud Centre. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo 1 (1), pp. 135-140. ISSN 1824-078X.
Green, Viviane (1997) The child who gets under your skin. FAETT Journal
Fabricius, J. and Green, Viviane (1995) Termination in child analysis: a child led process?. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 50, pp. 205-226. ISSN 0079-7308.
Green, Viviane (1995) Developmental considerations and diagnostic assessments. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre 18 (3), pp. 173-186. ISSN 2472-6982.
Green, Viviane (1994) The Therapeutic Treatment of a Five Year Old Boy with Experience of Early Loss. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre 17 (4), pp. 271-290. ISSN 2472-6982.

Book

Green, Viviane (2003) Emotional development in psychoanalysis, attachment theory and neuroscience: creating connections. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781583911358.

Book Review

Green, Viviane (1996) Give sorrow words.
Green, Viviane (1996) The fenceless field: essays on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Green, Viviane (1994) J.-B. Pontalis (translated by James Greene with Marie-Christine Reguis) Love of Beginnings, London: Free Association Books.

Book Section

Green, Viviane (2014) L'analyte en tant qu'objet de developpement. In: Guignard, F. and Passone, S.-M. (eds.) La Psychanalyse de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent: Etat des Lieux et Perspective. Paris, UK: Editions In Press. ISBN 9782848352923.
Green, Viviane (2012) The clinical training: 1947-2009. commemorating a tradition. In: Raphael-Leff, J. and Malberg, N.T. (eds.) The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution and Theory and Practice over the Decades. Lines of Development - Evolution and Theory and Practice over the Decades. London, UK: Karnac Books. pp. 54-70. ISBN 9781780490212.
Green, Viviane (2009) Individual psychotherapy: assessment, intensive and non-intensive work. In: Lanyado, M. and Horne, A. (eds.) The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches (2nd Edition). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 175-190. ISBN 9780415463690.
Green, Viviane (2007) Was konnen die neurowissenschaften den kindertherapeuten ambieten? einige probleme und möglichkeiten. In: Analytische Kinder und Jugendlichen Psychotherapie. Frankfurt, Germany: Brandes & Apsel Verlag.
Green, Viviane (2004) A atualidade da psicanalise de adolescentes: a exploracao um conflito sobre a bissexualidade em uma adolescente. In: Grana, R.B. and Piva, A. (eds.) Casa do Psicologico. pp. 75-90.
Green, Viviane (2003) Leo, the analytic treatment of an elective mute boy. In: Green, Viviane (ed.) Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory and Neuroscience. Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis. pp. 61-77. ISBN 9781583911341.
Green, Viviane (2001) Die analytische behandlung eines Jungen, der es vorzog zu verstummen. In: Analytische Kinder und Jugendlichen Psychotherapie. Frankfurt, Germany: Brandes & Apsel Verlag. pp. 43-62.
Green, Viviane (2000) Le travail avec les parents, psychotherapies de l'enfant et de l'adolescent. In: Houzel, D. and Geissman, C. (eds.) L'enfant, ses parents et le psychanalyse. Paris, France: Editions Bayard. pp. 565-579. ISBN 9782227020016.
Green, Viviane (2000) Work with parents: therapeutic space for recreating the child in the mind of the parents. In: Tsiantis, J. and Boethious, S.B. and Horne, A. and Hallerf, B. (eds.) Work with Parents. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents. London, UK: Karnac Books. pp. 25-46. ISBN 9781855752412.
Green, Viviane (1999) Intensive psychotherapy. In: Horne, A. and Lanyado, M. (eds.) Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Approaches. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 199-214. ISBN 9780415172592.
Green, Viviane (1998) 'Donald': the treatment of a five year old boy with early experience of early loss. In: Hurry, A. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy. Psychoanalytic Monographs. London, UK: Karnac Books. pp. 136-152. ISBN 9781855752139.
Davey, B. and Green, Viviane (1995) Adolescent development and risk taking. In: Davey, B. (ed.) Birth to Old Age: Health in Transition. Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press. pp. 92-109. ISBN 9780335192076.

Other

Green, Viviane (2012) Book review: 'The Thinking Heart'. The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.