Martha Harris
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.
The Tavistock Model: Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick
This is a revised and expanded edition of the collected papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick on child development, infant observation and psychoanalytic training, including some not in previous... (more)
The Educational Role of the Family: A Psychoanalytical Model
This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would... (more)
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris
This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and... (more)
The Story of Infant Development
This book brings together the closely observed development of Simone (from birth to three) and the perceptive comments of Martha (or Mattie) Harris, who was such an influential figure in the... (more)
Thinking about Infants and Young Children
This classic book, which has been published in many languages, describes some of the important aspects of the development of infants and young children from birth to school age. It is illustrated by... (more)
Your Teenager: Thinking About Your Child During the Secondary School Years
This volume contains Martha Harris’ three short books for parents originally published separately in 1969 in a series on child development: Your Eleven-year-old; Your Twelve to Fourteen Year Old; and... (more)