Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress
There are increasing numbers of young adults presenting with symptoms of gender distress. Marcus Evans suggests that this focus on gender funnels feelings of distress into a narrow domain of mental... (more)
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.
Gabor Mate is a... (more)
Can We Play Now? The Meaning of Play Throughout Lifetime Development
This book is a roadmap to understanding why children, young people, and adults play the way they play and why it really matters. Scant literature exists about the meaning of play and less still on... (more)
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children and young people who diagnose themselves as gender dysphoric, or trans. In the UK, and worldwide, there is a growing tendency to... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and Climate Change
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: War, Pandemic and the Climate Crisis gathers a global cohort of psychoanalytic thinkers to consider the most pressing issues currently faced by... (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)
An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book presents and illustrates the theory and technique of working with young people, their parents, and their families. Wide-ranging in focus from individuals to communities, it gives a... (more)
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain: Second Edition
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and... (more)
Arminda Aberastury’s Theory and Technique of Child Analysis
Arminda Aberastury was a pioneering child analyst and contemporary of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. She developed and popularised child psychoanalysis in Latin America and remains a profound... (more)
Working Psychoanalytically with Infants: From Françoise Dolto to Zhuang Zhou
Working Psychoanalytically with Infants: From Francoise Dolto to Zhuang Zhou explores several case studies from Nicole Yvert Coursilly’s work in French care homes, providing psychoanalytic treatment... (more)
The Collected Works of Melanie Klein
A four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works.
This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set.
Volume I - “Love, Guilt and Reparation” and Other Works... (more)
Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture
This works offers a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how and why diagnoses have increased in recent years. It is the first book to offer such... (more)
Love, Guilt and Reparation
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)
Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties
Contents:
Chapter 1: MATERNAL ORIENTATIONS - Mothers' Approaches to Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Chapter 2: FAMILY CLIMATES - Interaction Between Fathers, Mothers, Babies and Siblings
Chapter... (more)
Fostering Good Relationships: Partnership Work in Therapy with Looked After and Adopted Children
This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall... (more)
Womb Life: Wonders and Challenges of Pregnancy, the Foetus' Journey and Birth
How does life before birth shape a baby's development? In this trailblazing book, leading psychotherapist Graham Music explores the latest scientific findings on pregnancy and the incredible life of... (more)
Raising Confident Teenagers: The Take 3 Approach to Parenting Calmly in a Stressful World
An easily accessible and invaluable resource for parents of teenagers who want to improve the parent–teen relationship, and for professionals working with young people and their families. Packed with... (more)
The Silent Child: Communication without Words
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)
The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
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)
On Adolescence: Inside Stories
Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic,... (more)
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
This thought-provoking book reveals the bewildering dilemmas confronting the boarding school child, and discovers a dark secret at the heart of the British psyche. The author, a psychotherapist and... (more)
Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice
Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice demonstrates the step-by-step process of developing the depth of understanding, creativity, knowledge and... (more)
The Late Teenage Years: From Seventeen to Adulthood
The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the... (more)
The Piggle: The Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl
On 16 occasions, from the age of two until the age of five, 'the Piggle' - a little girl seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited Dr Winnincott. This is an account of her... (more)
How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy
Through the stories of individual children, this book illuminates the process of creative, play-based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a specific issue that brings a child or a young... (more)
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
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)
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in a Changing World: Children on the Edge
This book applies psychoanalytic insight to work with children and adolescents in a changing, often traumatic, world.
Each chapter considers how psychoanalysis can develop and be developed,... (more)
Children in Lockdown: Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times
Children in Lockdown: Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times acknowledges the constant change and adaptation that was required in real time and the reverberations that continue today. It provides the... (more)
Playing and Reality
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)