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Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression

Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression

by Graham Music

  • Paperback £10.99
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How can we respark joy and hope after despondency, numbness or trauma? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, in his sixth book, distils decades of experience to deliver a roadmap... (more)

Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties

Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties

by Joan Raphael-Leff

  • Paperback £18.00 (RRP : £20.00 save £2.00)

Contents:

Chapter 1: MATERNAL ORIENTATIONS - Mothers' Approaches to Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting

Chapter 2: FAMILY CLIMATES - Interaction Between Fathers, Mothers, Babies and Siblings

Chapter... (more)

Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021

Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021

by Margaret Rustin, Kate Stratton

  • Paperback £26.99 (RRP : £29.99 save £3.00)

Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her... (more)

Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Mentalization: A Dialogue in Theory and Practice

Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Mentalization: A Dialogue in Theory and Practice

by Tessa Baradon, Chloe Campbell

  • Paperback £19.99

This book is an account of best practice in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (PPIP) and mentalizing, bringing the two approaches in dialogue in relation to infancy.

While being... (more)

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families

Edited by Nilde Parada Franch, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

  • Paperback £29.99

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early... (more)

Mother-Baby-Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach

Mother-Baby-Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach

by Ilene S. Lefcourt

  • Paperback £17.99 (RRP : £19.99 save £2.00)

This book is a comprehensive guide for leading mother-baby-toddler groups, a text for teaching child development, and a handbook for early intervention.

The guidelines provide a detailed... (more)

Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice

Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice

Edited by Roz Read, Jeanne Magagna

  • Paperback £35.99 (RRP : £39.99 save £4.00)

Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice demonstrates the step-by-step process of developing the depth of understanding, creativity, knowledge and... (more)

Transforming Infantile Trauma in Analytic Work with Children and Adults: The Clinical Writings of Alessandra Cavalli

Transforming Infantile Trauma in Analytic Work with Children and Adults: The Clinical Writings of Alessandra Cavalli

Edited by Martha Stevns, Lucinda Hawkins

  • Paperback £31.99

This vivid and moving volume presents the clinical work and writings of Alessandra Cavalli, an internationally known child and adult psychoanalyst who taught and supervised widely, ran infant... (more)

Supporting Young People through Everyday Chaos: Counselling When Things Fall Apart

Supporting Young People through Everyday Chaos: Counselling When Things Fall Apart

by Nick Luxmoore

  • Paperback £14.99

This book provides ways to support and counsel young people struggling to adapt and live with the constant possibility of things breaking down, of normal life being overtaken by chaos.

Covering... (more)

How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy

How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy

by Tamsin Cottis

  • Paperback £19.99

Through the stories of individual children, this book illuminates the process of creative, play-based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a specific issue that brings a child or a young... (more)

On Adolescence: Inside Stories

On Adolescence: Inside Stories

by Margot Waddell

  • Paperback £36.99

Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic,... (more)

Love, Guilt and Reparation

Love, Guilt and Reparation

by Melanie Klein

  • Paperback £12.99

This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)

Peter Pan, the Lost Child

Peter Pan, the Lost Child

by Kathleen Kelley-Lainé

  • Paperback £19.99

Originally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l'Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language... (more)

Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

by Dilys Daws, Alexandra de Rementeria

  • Paperback £16.99

Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother, father and other significant adults.

This updated edition is informed by... (more)

What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children

What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children

Edited by Louise Emanuel, Elizabeth Bradley

  • Paperback £35.99
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This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (more)

The Suicidal Adolescent

The Suicidal Adolescent

Edited by Moses Laufer

  • Paperback £39.99

As our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light increases: this monograph focuses on one of the most... (more)

Infancy: The Basics

Infancy: The Basics

by Marc H. Bornstein, Martha E. Arterberry

  • Paperback £17.09 (RRP : £18.99 save £1.90)

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants... (more)

A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People: Ways to Release the Imprisoned Self

A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People: Ways to Release the Imprisoned Self

by Jeanne Magagna

  • Paperback £28.79 (RRP : £31.99 save £3.20)

This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.

The book... (more)

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

by Susan Evans, Marcus Evans

  • Paperback £25.19 (RRP : £27.99 save £2.80)

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children and young people who diagnose themselves as gender dysphoric, or trans. In the UK, and worldwide, there is a growing tendency to... (more)

The Late Teenage Years: From Seventeen to Adulthood

The Late Teenage Years: From Seventeen to Adulthood

by Luis Rodriguez De La Sierra, Joan Schachter

  • Paperback £18.99

The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the... (more)

Playing and Reality

Playing and Reality

by Donald W. Winnicott

  • Paperback £19.99

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)

Emotional Development across the Lifespan

Emotional Development across the Lifespan

by Linda A. Camras

  • Paperback £37.99

Unique in its dual focus on emotion and lifespan development, this text weaves together theory, research, and practical clinical implications for fostering children's emotional well-being. The author... (more)

The Dreams of a Child: A Case Study in Early Forms of Dreaming

The Dreams of a Child: A Case Study in Early Forms of Dreaming

by Claudio Colace

  • Paperback £28.79 (RRP : £31.99 save £3.20)

This fascinating and highly original book presents a longitudinal systematic study of the earliest form of human dreaming in a child, from ages 4 through 10.

Claudio Colace draws upon his... (more)

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents: A Practical Treatment Guide

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents: A Practical Treatment Guide

Edited by Trudie Rossouw, Maria Wiwe

  • Paperback £25.19 (RRP : £27.99 save £2.80)

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A)is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.

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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

by Gabor Mate

  • Paperback £12.99

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.

Gabor Mate is a... (more)

The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training

The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training

by Martha Harris, Esther Bick

  • Paperback £33.50

This is one of a new two volume edition of Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, which includes some papers not published in the first edition. The companion volume, Adolescence, by... (more)

Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition

Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition

by Stephen Briggs

  • Paperback £34.99

Draws together traditional and recent psychoanalytic theory and illustrates its application to the study of practical therapeutic work with young people through vivid case material. Contemporary... (more)

Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond

Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond

Edited by Moses Laufer

  • Paperback £36.99

This is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the... (more)

Closely Observed Infants

Closely Observed Infants

Edited by Lisa Miller, Margaret Rustin

  • Paperback £26.99

For many years the regular observation of infants during the first two years of life has been a vital element in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic. This book presents... (more)

The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development

The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development

by Donald W. Winnicott

  • Paperback £44.09 (RRP : £48.99 save £4.90)

The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)

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