Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant: Symbiosis and Individuation
'The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a... (more)
Children's Phantasies: The Shaping of Relationships
Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for... (more)
Extending Horizons: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Families
Extending Horizons presents a wide-ranging collection of papers by leading practitioners in the field of analytic psychotherapy with children and young people, surveying recent developments in... (more)
The Uses of Enchantment
Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses... magic forests and enchanted towers... little pigs and big bad wolves... Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But... (more)
Closely Observed Infants
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)
Memorial candles: Children of the Holocaust
A moving and revealing insight into the treatment of children of Holocaust victims. The author, drawing on over twenty years of experience, describes how these children often need professional help... (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 Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (more)
Pregnancy: The Inside Story
Utilising her wealth of material and experience, Raphael-Leff explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the... (more)
Developmental Theory and Clinical Process
Covering child development, child observation, clinical process and theory, and touching on classical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this work shows how the perspectives of... (more)
Who calls the tune?: A psychodramatic approach to child therapy
Psychodrama has its genesis in the play of children. The author explains how its powerful techniques can be safely used in working with the child who has been badly traumatized.
Children as Individuals
Third edition. In this classic text, Jung's concept of archetypes is applied to the study of childhood development. Research on intra-uterine life and infancy has strengthened the author's view of... (more)
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Childhood Trauma
Argues that many recovered memories have their source in primitive anxieties, and that it is easy for the therapist and the client to externalise the past onto supposed perpetrators, under the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
Emotional Growth and Learning
This book is concerned with the treatment of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It covers emotional growth and learning, and illustrates the relevant concepts of Jungian,... (more)
Interventions With Bereaved Children
A comprehensive guide to the many differing approaches in tackling the issue of bereavement in children. Music and drama therapy - in formal and informal settings - and the outcomes of the... (more)
Middle Class Waifs
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Understanding Children
Using a combination of modern child psychology, and a commonsense approach to the child-parent relationship, the author argues that there is no specific language which parents must use to effectively... (more)
Treatment of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent
A study of methods of treatment for severely disturbed adolescents, on the premise that they have a full capacity for internalisation, once their abandonment depression has been worked through.
Toys, Play and Child Development
Anything to do with children's entertainment is a source of controversy: children's television programmes, musical preferences, and leisure activities are frequent sources of debate. Toys and play... (more)
The Suicidal Adolescent
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)
Play Therapy: Where the Sky Meets the Underworld
Play is one of the most creative opportunities open to a child, and is of growing interest to therapists and others in the caring professions. This book examines how children develop skills in play... (more)
The Emotional Needs of Young Children and Their Families: Applications of Psychoanalysis in Community Settings
Describes the ways psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a variety of community settings, to help children who are emotionally disturbed or who have been physically or sexually abused. It... (more)
Using self psychology in child psychotherapy
Presents a self- psychological approach to psychotherapy with children. The book builds on Kohut's contributions, and shows how self psychology allows child patients who have been considered... (more)
Thinking About Children
At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since... (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)