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. He was the editor-in-chief
of the six volume Handbook of Child Psychiatry, co-author of the
two volume Pathways of Growth: Essentials of Child Psychiatry, and
co-editor of Stressors and the Adjustment Disorders. His breadth of
knowledge and wisdom ranged well beyond the traditional areas of
diagnosis and therapeutic interventions, envisioning the child as
an individual within the family and the wider culture. Based on
psychoanalytic ideas and without jargon, Noshpitz's innovative
ideas are grounded in the developmental theories of Freud, Mahler,
and Kernberg. These previously unpublished papers demonstrate
Noshpitz's scope and the depth to which he conceived the psychic
life of the child. Each paper is introduced by experts who
contemporize and contextualize the work for the modern reader. The
wide-ranging papers include ethics in child development, narcissism
in the grade school years, tomboyism, idealization, negative ego
ideals, and self-destructiveness in adolescence. More applied
papers delve into the formative appeal of literature for adolescent
girls, the developmental lessons of the Ninja Turtles, and the
creative early motivations behind art, music, dance, mime, and
poetry. The papers present an unyielding advocacy for the
progressive development of the child interacting with the society
at large, most evidenced in the extraordinarily far-reaching
proposal for wider preventive family interventions. As poignant now
as the time when they were written, Noshpitz's thoughtful
commentaries and analyses repeatedly demonstrate his intrinsic
curiosity, joy of learning, generosity and sensitivity to the
myriad struggles of youth. His psychodynamic sensibility is a
contrast to this era of quick psychopharmalogical fixes,
cognitive-behavioral approaches, and managed care. To learn more
about the life and work of Joseph Noshpitz, and to access more of
his unpublished work, please visit http://josephnoshpitz.com.
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