Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
This thought-provoking book reveals the bewildering dilemmas confronting the boarding school child, and discovers a dark secret at the heart of the British psyche. The author, a psychotherapist and... (more)
Anna Freud: A View of Development, Disturbance and Therapeutic Techniques
This study takes a fresh look at the relatively unknown contributions of Anna Freud's work to psychoanalytical theory and child development. The book highlights how her work is still relevant and... (more)
Children of Social Trauma: Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies
Observing the ways in which a large group of people may experience collective trauma, which can have identifiable effects in succeeding generations, the author has pioneered individual and group... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy
Many books have recently appeared on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, but relatively few have dealt specifically with problems of technique and with the theory that informs those techniques. It is... (more)
Techniques and issues in abuse-focused therapy with Children and Adolescents
The author describes the 'internalization model', which she uses as a framework to assist in understanding the effects of sexual abuse on children and adolescents who are reluctant to talk about... (more)
Autism and Childhood Psychosis
This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis. In it, she tackles problems of diagnosis as... (more)
Growth and Risk in Infancy
This work uses case studies of 'potential risk' children, vulnerable to developmental problems in their home environment. It assesses whether a method can be used to predict accurately infant... (more)
Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Drawing on the rich range and depth of the clinical experience of the contributors, this welcome volume will be a valuable tool for clinicians and trainees. The authors share a powerful commitment to... (more)
Talking with mothers
This book is about being a mother - a pregnant mother and then a mother with a baby. The author attempts to stimulate and support the natural reflectiveness of the pregnant woman and her fears,... (more)
Understanding Your Baby
How do you decide whether to breast feed your baby and what are the emotions involved for mother and baby when the baby rejects a feed, or when breast feeding stops? What happens when a baby starts... (more)
Understanding 12-14-Year-Olds
Margot Waddell offers helpful advice to parents whose children have reached the turbulent teenage years. From conflict management to addressing issues of bullying, stealing and same-sex friendships,... (more)
Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View
In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically, that their illness differs from comparable illnesses in older patients,... (more)
The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment
T. Berry Brazelton, world renowned pediatrician and expert on infant development, and Bertrand Cramer, pioneer in mother-infant psychotherapy, have combined their lifetimes of research and practice... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (more)
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English... (more)
Psychological Processes of Childbearing
Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the... (more)
Play Therapy in Action
This casebook offers step-by-step treatment guidelines for a number of childhood difficulties, including internalization, externalization, and post-traumatic disorders. It brings together concrete... (more)
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction
On its first publication Narratives of Love and Loss was widely recognised as an important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature and for its capacity to stimulate deep... (more)
The Drama of Being a Child: The Search for the True Self: Revised Edition
This revised edition of Miller's classic text incorporates many of her new ideas about development and infancy.
Psychoanalytic Crisis Work with Adolescents: An Independent Approach
Adolescence in Crisis: An Independent Psychoanalytic Approach to Adolescent Mental Health offers a cultural and theoretical examination of the seemingly omnipresent and ever-growing mental health... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach
This book is the first comprehensive clinical introduction to using Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) with children, 5-12 years old, who experience emotional and behavioral problems including... (more)
Working Psychoanalytically with Infants: From Françoise Dolto to Zhuang Zhou
Working Psychoanalytically with Infants: From Francoise Dolto to Zhuang Zhou explores several case studies from Nicole Yvert Coursilly’s work in French care homes, providing psychoanalytic treatment... (more)
Psychoanalysarium: Four Case Studies of Child Psychoanalysis
In this unique volume, four experienced psychoanalysts present in-depth case studies of child psychoanalysis, highlighting the praxis, development and relevance of psychoanalytic work with... (more)
Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent
While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the... (more)
Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective
This book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America... (more)