1st Edition

Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children

By Francoise Dolto Copyright 2013
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the author's 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. The author's aim was to sensitise people to the unconscious dimensions of many problems in children. She demonstrates here, through sixteen case studies, how often children's difficulties at school and at home - be they behavioural or due... Read more
Introduction by the Translators -- Preface to the 1971 Edition -- Introduction -- Theoretical Part -- Terminology -- Evolution of the instincts -- The Oedipus complex -- Enuresis -- Fear of death and castration anxiety -- Clinical Part -- Presentation of a method -- Observations -- Case Studies

Biography

Dolto, Francoise