Child and Adolescent Mental Health Arena

Infant Observation and Research

Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives

• Edited by Cathy Urwin, and Janine Sternberg.

Published April 2012

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…
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The Thinking Heart

Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children

• By Anne Alvarez.

Published April 2012

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…
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Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001

A Primary Prevention Project

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

Published February 2012

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…
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Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents

A Process-Oriented Guide for Therapists

• By Steven Tuber, and Jane Caflisch.

Published March 2011

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…
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Reading Winnicott

• Edited by Lesley Caldwell, and Angela Joyce.

Published January 2011

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…
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The Journey of Child Development

Selected Papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz

• Edited by Bruce Sklarew, and Myra Sklarew.

Published October 2010

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.…
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Parents and Toddlers in Groups

A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach

• Edited by Marie Zaphiriou Woods, and Inge-Martine Pretorius.

Published October 2010

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…
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Primitive Mental States

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning

• Edited by Jane Van Buren, and Shelley Alhanati.

Published December 2009

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…
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Relational Trauma in Infancy

Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

• Edited by Tessa Baradon.

Published December 2009

This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the field of infant mental health in bringing together previously separated paradigms of relational trauma…
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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Approaches

• Edited by Monica Lanyado, and Ann Horne.

Published June 2009

This updated edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes: additional chapters on neuroscience, work with ‘looked after children’ and with foster parents, working in schools enlarged chapters on research, attachment theory…
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