Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
World-renowned psychoanalyst, Alice Miller has devoted a lifetime to studying how the cruelties inflicted on children cripple them as adults. In this new work, Miller goes further, investigating the... (more)
Understanding 6-7-Year-Olds
This accessible book provides a wealth of information to help parents, educators and carers better relate to children at this exciting, yet demanding, stage of development. From the new-found sense... (more)
Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind
Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which should be of interest to all arts and play therapists... (more)
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work
Basing their work on the idea that psychoanalytic therapy and technique require more rather than less from the therapist, the Novicks explore the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (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)
You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win
Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair - on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a... (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)
The Handbook of Group Play Therapy: How to Do it, How it Works, Whom it's Best for
Here is a comprehensive guide to of the the most effective and dynamic childhood intervention available to counselors, therapists, teachers, psychologists, and anyone who works with kids. This... (more)
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (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)
Adolescence
'Adolescence - when we are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood - is a time of much disturbance, change and potential for growth. The adolescent is confronted with a body that... (more)
Attachment and Development
First published in 2000. Attachment Theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child relationships and their influence on development. The theory has generated an ever-expanding body of... (more)
Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy: Playing and Health
A stimulating book which will provide inspiration for those new to the discipline of play therapy, and at the same time will provide a fresh and exciting approach for established practitioners. 191... (more)
Burdened children: Theory, research, and treatment of parentification
What are the developmental effects on children who must fulfill the family role of parent ? This book defines 'parentified children' as those who are compelled to perform the role of parent at the... (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)
Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse
How can someone forget an event as traumatic as sexual abuse in childhood? people who don't know firsthand may wonder, and many apparently do, or controversy wouldn't be raging around the issue of... (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)
Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond
This is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the... (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)
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)
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)
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)