Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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.
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)
The Drama of Being a Child: The Search for the True Self: Revised Edition
This revised edition of Miller's classic text incorporates many of her new ideas about development and infancy.
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller... (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)
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)
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts: Jungian and post-jungian psychotherapy in adolescence
The book revolves around the activation of incest fantasies and incestuous acting out in adolescence, interpreting this phenomenon as a potentially creative and healing regression.
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
Rapprochement: The Critical Subphase of Sepearation-Individuation
Presents and clarifies the meaning of the rapprochement subphase in child development. (more)