Current Psychoanalysis
When Children Become Parents. The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification (2026)
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Some children learn too early how to care for others—and too late how to care for themselves.
Based on Mark Kinet's The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification, this conversation explores the hidden costs of growing up with responsibilities that belong to adults. The works of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion and Jacques…