Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis Books

New and Published Books

1. The Thinking Heart

   Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children

   By Anne Alvarez

   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 the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Infant Observation and Research

   Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives

   Edited by Cathy Urwin, Janine Sternberg

   Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Minding the Child

   Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families

   Edited by Nick Midgley, Ioanna Vrouva

   What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001

   A Primary Prevention Project

   Edited by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, Sara Markese

   The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Origins, Prevention and Treatment of Infant Crying and Sleeping Problems

   An Evidence-Based Guide for Healthcare Professionals and the Families They Support

   By Ian St James-Roberts

   Babies who cry a lot, or are unsettled in the night, are common sources of concern for parents and, consequently, costly problems for health services. In this book, Ian St James-Roberts summarises the evidence concerning infant crying and sleeping problems to provide a new evidence-based approach...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents

   A Process-Oriented Guide for Therapists

   By Steven Tuber, Jane Caflisch

   Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents provides therapists with a time-tested framework for treatment and a moment-by-moment guide to the first few sessions with a new patient. In twelve remarkable case studies, verbatim transcripts of individual play-therapy sessions are brought to life...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Reading Winnicott

   Edited by Lesley Caldwell, Angela Joyce

   Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series

   Reading Winnicott brings together a selection of papers by the psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, providing an insight into his work and charting its impact on the well-being of mothers, babies, children and families. With individual introductions summarising the key features of...

   Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Journey of Child Development

   Selected Papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz

   Edited by Bruce Sklarew, Myra Sklarew

   As founder and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and president of the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, Joseph Noshpitz was at the forefront of psychodynamic treatment and research with children and adolescents for more than forty years....

   Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Parents and Toddlers in Groups

   A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach

   Edited by Marie Zaphiriou Woods, Inge-Martine Pretorius

   This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups can be an effective medium for early intervention during a period which is critical for the...

   Published October 7th 2010 by Routledge
10. Primitive Mental States

    A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning

    Edited by Jane Van Buren, Shelley Alhanati

    Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge