Observation and the Psychoanalytic Imagination: Papers from Child Psychotherapy, 1991-2025

Author(s) : Margaret Rustin, Author(s) : Kate Stratton, Editor : Simon Cregeen

Observation and the Psychoanalytic Imagination: Papers from Child Psychotherapy, 1991-2025

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 354
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 98600
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041361046
  • ISBN 10 : 1041361041

About the Author(s)

Margaret Rustin is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and child analyst. She was head of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic 1985–2009 and played a major role in the extension of child psychotherapy training across the UK. Since retiring from the NHS, she works in private practice and teaches in many different countries. She has edited and written widely, most recently Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983–2021 (2023).

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Kate Stratton is a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the Adolescent & Young Adult Service at the Tavistock Clinic where she also teaches and supervises. She is a former editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, and co-editor of the Tavistock Clinic Series.

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Simon Cregeen is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Formerly head of Child Psychotherapy in Manchester and Salford NHS CAMHS, he now works in independent practice. He teaches and supervises and is co-author of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual (2016).

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