Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Through Windows of Opportunity: A Neuroaffective Approach to Child Psychotherapy
Research has shown that nonspecific factors such as relationship and personality have a stronger correlation to outcome than method. The basic argument of Through Windows of Opportunity is that... (more)
Do You Read Me?: Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia and the Denial of Meaning
A fascinating and compelling exploration of the learning process for parents, teachers, and anyone with an interest in education.
Reading and writing are fundamentally about the communication of... (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)
Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation
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)
Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space
Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (more)
Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles: Understanding the Experience of Miscarriage, Premature Births, Infertility, and Postnatal Depression
There are many books that deal with pregnancy and maternity, and a large number of magazines and articles on paediatric nursing that examine these subjects from different points of view. This volume... (more)
The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
This volume in a book series on psychoanalytic leaders, provides a geographically global sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott’s complex and paradoxical thinking.
In the first section, on... (more)
The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation and Loss
This edited volume focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and... (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)
The Creation of the Self and Language: Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World (+ DVD)
'This book, with its accompanying DVD, "NOW I AM A REAL KID" has made it possible for us to witness what David Rosenfeld’s treatment of Benjamin, a young boy with a diagnosis of autism, was actually... (more)
Working with Teenage Parents: Handbook of Theory and Practice
Includes DVD of Observation clips.
For practitioners working with pregnant teenagers, young parents and their children.
Parenting, like adolescence, is a profoundly disturbing experience,... (more)
Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice Post Bowlby: Revised Edition
This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic... (more)
Deprivation and Delinquency
An invaluable compilation of D.W. Winnicott's papers, talks, letters and lectures between 1930 and 1970, centred on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically... (more)
Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach
This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups... (more)
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability: Second Updated Edition
This book was an instant classic when it first appeared in 1992 and has continued to be a key text ever since. Easy to read yet profound in its meaning, it offers hope to professionals, family... (more)
Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development and Clinical Practice
We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them.
Normal human development relies... (more)
Saying No: Why It's Important For You and Your Child
Asha Phillips writes as both a child psychotherapist and a mother, using case studies as well as informal anecdotes from family and friends as illustrations. She strips away the negative associations... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)
Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View
Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development. Traditionally in psychoanalytic thinking, sibling relationships are regarded as secondary in developmental importance to the... (more)
The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics: A European Study Bridging Ethics, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)
A Question of Technique: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
A Question of Technique discusses the cutting edge of contemporary practice in child and adolescent therapy. Monica Lanyado and Ann Horne bring a fresh approach to a field that is largely dominated... (more)
Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self
Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander's first book, Windows To Our Children. Most of the books available in working with this population are written from a traditional 'play therapy' point of... (more)
Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts
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)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott
This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping... (more)
Sent Before My Time: A Child Psychotherapist's View of Life on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Sent Before My Time is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines the relationships between the babies, the parents... (more)
Psychotic States in Children
Developments in the understanding and psychotherapeutic treatment of children and adolescents suffering from psychotic levels of disturbance are dealt with in this work, from the Tavistock Clinic... (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)
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)
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)