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Once I Was Very Very Scared

Once I Was Very Very Scared

by Chandra Ghosh Ippen

  • Paperback £8.39 (RRP : £11.99 save £3.60)

A little squirrel announces that he was once very, very scared and finds out that he is not alone. Lots of little animals went through scary experiences, but they react in different ways. Turtle... (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 £31.99

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)

Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression

Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression

by Graham Music

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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)

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.

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An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas

An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas

by Deirdre Dowling

  • Paperback £27.29 (RRP : £29.99 save £2.70)

An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas is a comprehensive guide to child and adolescent psychotherapy, taking the practitioner from the... (more)

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris

by Donald Meltzer, Martha Harris

  • Paperback £31.99

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)

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

by Bjorn Salomonsson

  • Paperback £34.99

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies. Emotional problems during the... (more)

Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies

Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies

by Nara Amalia Caron, Rita Sobreira Lopes

  • Paperback £25.89 (RRP : £36.99 save £11.10)

We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more... (more)

Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child

Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child

by Joy Schaverien

  • Paperback £41.99

Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of... (more)

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder: Second Edition

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder: Second Edition

by James Lock, Daniel Le Grange

  • Paperback £15.99

Tens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate resource for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Numerous vivid stories show how to recognize... (more)

Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation

Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation

Edited by Simonetta M.G. Adamo, Margaret Rustin

  • Paperback £41.99

Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud’s... (more)

The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

by Anne Alvarez

  • Paperback £37.99

How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children

Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children

by Francoise Dolto

  • Paperback £35.99

This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)

Work Discussion:  Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families

Work Discussion: Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families

Edited by Margaret Rustin, Jonathan Bradley

  • Paperback £34.99

'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external.... (more)

Understanding 10-11-year-olds

Understanding 10-11-year-olds

by Rebecca Bergese

  • Paperback £12.99

Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds introduces the challenges that face children as they start to make their transition from childhood into adolescence. Children at this age begin to express independence... (more)

Understanding 8-9-year-olds

Understanding 8-9-year-olds

by Biddy Youell

  • Paperback £12.99

Understanding 8-9-Year-Olds describes how children grow and change as they move further away from reliance on home and family, out into the world of school and community. Children of this age develop... (more)

The Silent Child: Communication without Words

The Silent Child: Communication without Words

Edited by Jeanne Magagna

  • Paperback £51.99

The Silent Child: Communication without Words describes a way of understanding and communicating with children who are not speaking, but rather using their bodies and somatic symptoms to express... (more)

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents

by Alex Holder

  • Paperback £35.99

The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)

Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts

Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts

Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff

  • Paperback £28.99 (RRP : £32.99 save £4.00)

This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and... (more)

Child Analysis Today

Child Analysis Today

Edited by Luis Rodriguez De La Sierra

  • Paperback £27.99

Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most... (more)

Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation

Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation

Edited by Andrew Briggs

  • Paperback £36.99

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)

Talking with mothers

Talking with mothers

by Dana Breen

  • Paperback £18.95

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 One-Year-Old

Understanding Your One-Year-Old

by Sarah Gustavus Jones

  • Paperback £12.99

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 Baby

Understanding Your Baby

by Sophie Boswell, Your Child Understanding

  • Paperback £12.99
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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)

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View

by Moses Laufer, M. Egle Laufer

  • Paperback £35.99

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

The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment

by T. Berry Brazelton, Bertrand G. Cramer

  • Paperback £48.99

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)

Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst

Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst

by Donald W. Winnicott

  • Paperback £11.69 (RRP : £12.99 save £1.30)

A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (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)

Psychological Processes of Childbearing

Psychological Processes of Childbearing

by Joan Raphael-Leff

  • Paperback £35.99

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)

Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development

Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development

by Anna Freud

  • Paperback £48.99

Anna Freud's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual phenomena... (more)

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