Thinking about Infants and Young Children
Book Details
- Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
- Published : 2018
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 130
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 93571
- ISBN 13 : 9781912567331
- ISBN 10 : 1912567334
About the Author(s)
Martha Harris (1919-1987) read English at University College London and then Psychology at Oxford. She taught in a Froebel Teacher Training College and was trained as a Psychologist at Guys Hospital, as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she was for many years responsible for the child psychotherapy training in the department of Children and Families, and as a Psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Together with her first husband Roland Harris (a teacher) she started a pioneering schools counselling service. With her second husband Donald Meltzer she wrote a psychoanalytical model of The Child in the Family in the Community for multidisciplinary use in schools and therapeutic units.