Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Love and Hate in the Nursery and Beyond: Voices from the Unconscious
Eisenbud probes issues around the Oedipus complex - expressions of infantile horror for the breast, ambivalence toward the mother from dependence on her and terrors of abandonment. She then describes... (more)
Principles of Child Psychotherapy
A discussion of the possible therapeutic moves and options in child psychotherapy, in which the author advocates a commonsense approach, encouraging the reader to fit treatment plans to patients,... (more)
Growing up sad: Childhood depression and its treatment
This analysis of childhood depression explores the interplay of environment and genetics, showing how psychological reactions may translate into biochemical changes which form the core of depressive... (more)
Separation-Individuation: The Selected Papers of Margaret S. Mahler, Vol.2
More of the collected papers of this influential American psychoanalyst. They provide an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.
Armfuls of time: The psychological experience of the child with a life-threatening illness
This text describes the work with, and psychological experience of, those children who are diagnosed as terminally ill. It makes extensive use of case studies - incorporating the words of children -... (more)