1st Edition
The Challenges of Working with Child Sexual Exploitation and How a Psychoanalytic Understanding Can Help
Chapter One - Introduction
Chapter Two - Excitement as a defence against despair: An adolescent girl’s failed mourning of childhood and childhood attachments
Julie Long
Chapter Three - Children having children: The cycle of exploitation in pregnancy and premature motherhood
Fiona Henderson
Chapter Four - Understanding the significance and function of protective aggression in clinical work with young people who were groomed and sexually abused
Ariel Nathanson
Chapter Five - Victim/Victimizer: Grappling with some of the dynamics of exploitation
Robin Solomon
Chapter Six - Lost and found and the need for belonging: Exploring the risk of exploitation for young people living on the edge of care
Alison Roy
Chapter Seven - A father in mind: The importance of considering ‘paternal functions’ when caring for vulnerable young women who are at risk of sexual exploitation
Robin Solomon
Chapter Eight - The social and political context
Steve Bambrough and R.M. Shingleton
Chapter Nine - Shame, blame and the thinking community
Janine Cherry-Swaine
Chapter Ten - Abuse and exploitation in groups and organisations: A psychoanalytic psychiatrist’s perspective
Judith Trowell
Chapter Eleven - Child sexual exploitation in a refugee context: The assault on protection
Krisna Catsaras
Chapter Twelve - Community psychotherapy: Creating a therapeutic culture in frontline care organisations
Ariel Nathanson
Chapter Thirteen - Don’t we all envy mothers
Marion Bower
Biography
Marion Bower has postgraduate diplomas in Education and Social Work. She was a Consultant Social Worker at the Tavistock Clinic and is a Senior Adult Psychotherapist. She has written and edited four books on related subjects and is currently working on a biography of Psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, to be published by Routledge.
Robin Solomon has been a Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist for over 40 years. She has held senior posts at the Tavistock Clinic as a clinician and as an educator. She now works independently as an external staff consultant with CAMHS services in Britain and abroad and with residential care homes for Looked After adolescents.
