Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Child, the Family and the Outside World
A series of essays covering the various aspects of the relationship between mother and infant, parent and child, and child and school.
Autistic States in Children: Second Edition
If the care of autistic children is to be humane, there should be an understanding of what lies behind their strange behaviour and their impassive faces - often masking intense states of terror. This... (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.
About Children and Children No Longer: Collected Papers 1942-1980
About Children and Children-no-Longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On... (more)
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development
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)
Identity in Adolescence: Fourth edition: The Balance between Self and Other
This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood... (more)
Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development
This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and... (more)
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 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
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)
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne, and interrogates her vast experience in the field of... (more)
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help... (more)
Melanie Klein: The Basics
Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight... (more)
The Presence of the Therapist: Treating Childhood Trauma
The Presence of the Therapist uses clinical studies based on the author's publications over the past 18 years to illustrate work with severely distressed children. The reader is encouraged to enter a... (more)
Profiles of Play: Assessing and Observing Structure and Process in Play
Written by a leading child psychologist, this clearly written and practical book provides a template for interpreting change and meaning in children's lives through their play activity. It shows how... (more)
Engaging Infants: Embodied Communication in Short-Term Infant-Parent Therapy
The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of interventions in several specialised perinatal... (more)
Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans... (more)
The Developmental Science of Early Childhood: Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence
The field commonly known as infant mental health integrates current research from developmental psychology, genetics and neuroscience to form a model of prevention, intervention and treatment well... (more)
Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental-health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today's schools. Chapters provide a wide... (more)
Defeating Teenage Depression: Getting There Together
Are you feeling down and irritable a lot of the time? Do relationships with your family and friends seem more complicated than they used to? Do you wish that someone would understand that you aren't... (more)
The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott
12-Volume Set
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis,... (more)
Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development
From a pioneering researcher, this book synthesizes the best current knowledge on resilience in children and adolescents. Ann S. Masten explores what allows certain individuals to thrive and adapt... (more)
Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer
Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer presents a complete picture of mental development, informed by contemporary research and psychodynamic thinking. Dr. Gilmore and Dr.... (more)
Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child: Observing, Understanding, and Helping Children
This book represents an innovative project in which parents, teachers and other professionals work collaboratively to observe children, understand them at a deep emotional level through their play... (more)
Infant Observation: Creating Transformative Relationships
Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illustrate the vital importance of infant observation in psychoanalytic training, tracing influences on the practice of infant observation and... (more)
Early Parenting and Prevention of Disorder: Psychoanalytic Research at Interdisciplinary Frontiers
This book provides insight and findings from leading psychoanalysts who are involved in early prevention research and clinical work. Advances in the sciences of early development have brought a... (more)
Winnicott's Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of D.W. Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has... (more)
Reading Anna Freud
What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can Anna Freud teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant... (more)
The Educational Role of the Family: A Psychoanalytical Model
This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would... (more)
Looking and Listening: Work from the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre with a Supervision Seminar by Esther Bick
‘Marisa Pelella Melega came to Rome in 1988 to celebrate the foundation of the first Centro Studi Martha Harris, and to establish a link between the Centro Studi and her initiative in São Paulo. The... (more)
Waiting To Be Found: Papers on Children in Care
This book is about children in State care and its title – Waiting to be Found – is derived from an observation about such children by the child psychotherapist Hamish Canham.
In one of his... (more)