Simonetta M. G. Adamo, former Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at Milan’s University “Bicocca”, is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. She co-organizes the Tavistock Short Course “Working with Troubled Adolescents”, is the Organising Tutor of the Naples Observation Course, and teaches at the Centro Studi Martha Harris, Florence. She has edited the books: Un breve viaggio nella propria mente. Counselling psicoanalitico con adolescent (1990); Il compagno immaginario. Studi psicoanalitici (2006); and La cura della relazione in oncologia pediatrica (2008). She has co-planned experimental projects in schools and works in Naples in private practice.
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)