Child and Adolescent Studies Books
You and Your Toddler
A central theme of this book is the gradual process of separation between parents and toddlers and the growth of autonomy in them all. Jenny Stoker has written with clarity, sympathy and warmth about... (more)
You and Your Baby
This volume is to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy and recognition... (more)
The First Relationship: Infant and Mother
Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, The First Relationship offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his... (more)
Play Diagnosis and Assessment
Through play children can express emotions that they cannot verbalise. This completely revised edition of a classic, field-leading resource explains to clinicians how best to identify children's... (more)
Adult Analysis and Childhood Sexual Abuse
A study of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult analysis. Topics covered include the sequelae of sexual maltreatment of children; the impact of incest trauma on ego development; and... (more)
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
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)
Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation
Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field, commemorating the centenary of Esther Bick and the unique contribution she has... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona
This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (more)
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy: A Handbook
This is a comprehensive handbook, full of vital information on the theory and practice of infant-parent psychotherapy, that will revolutionise the treatment of babies. It is essential reading for all... (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)
Understanding Your One-Year-Old
How does a one-year-old's mind and personality develop and grow? How does your role as a parent change when your baby starts to walk, talk and really explore the world around her? How do you support... (more)
Understanding Your Two-Year-Old
What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do? How can parents decide when their child is ready for day care, and manage their child's transition to a trusted child minder? Lisa... (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)
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)
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He... (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)
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (more)