Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Children's Phantasies: The Shaping of Relationships
Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for... (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)
Memorial candles: Children of the Holocaust
A moving and revealing insight into the treatment of children of Holocaust victims. The author, drawing on over twenty years of experience, describes how these children often need professional help... (more)
Developmental Theory and Clinical Process
Covering child development, child observation, clinical process and theory, and touching on classical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this work shows how the perspectives of... (more)
Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities... (more)
Who calls the tune?: A psychodramatic approach to child therapy
Psychodrama has its genesis in the play of children. The author explains how its powerful techniques can be safely used in working with the child who has been badly traumatized.
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Childhood Trauma
Argues that many recovered memories have their source in primitive anxieties, and that it is easy for the therapist and the client to externalise the past onto supposed perpetrators, under the... (more)
Play Therapy in Action
This casebook offers step-by-step treatment guidelines for a number of childhood difficulties, including internalization, externalization, and post-traumatic disorders. It brings together concrete... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
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)
Emotional Growth and Learning
This book is concerned with the treatment of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It covers emotional growth and learning, and illustrates the relevant concepts of Jungian,... (more)
Interventions With Bereaved Children
A comprehensive guide to the many differing approaches in tackling the issue of bereavement in children. Music and drama therapy - in formal and informal settings - and the outcomes of the... (more)
Middle Class Waifs
280 pages.
Understanding Children
Using a combination of modern child psychology, and a commonsense approach to the child-parent relationship, the author argues that there is no specific language which parents must use to effectively... (more)
Treatment of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent
A study of methods of treatment for severely disturbed adolescents, on the premise that they have a full capacity for internalisation, once their abandonment depression has been worked through.
Toys, Play and Child Development
Anything to do with children's entertainment is a source of controversy: children's television programmes, musical preferences, and leisure activities are frequent sources of debate. Toys and play... (more)
The Suicidal Adolescent
As our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light increases: this monograph focuses on one of the most... (more)
Play Therapy: Where the Sky Meets the Underworld
Play is one of the most creative opportunities open to a child, and is of growing interest to therapists and others in the caring professions. This book examines how children develop skills in play... (more)
The Emotional Needs of Young Children and Their Families: Applications of Psychoanalysis in Community Settings
Describes the ways psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a variety of community settings, to help children who are emotionally disturbed or who have been physically or sexually abused. It... (more)
Using self psychology in child psychotherapy
Presents a self- psychological approach to psychotherapy with children. The book builds on Kohut's contributions, and shows how self psychology allows child patients who have been considered... (more)
Thinking About Children
At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since... (more)
From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
The advent of ultrasound scanning has made it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in its natural surroundings. In this book the author describes in moving detail her observations of the... (more)
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent. He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so - and this book is a most vivid and... (more)
Our Need for Others and Its Roots in Infancy
In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures. (more)
