"The Silent Child" describes a way of understanding and
communicating with children who are not speaking, but rather using
their bodies and somatic symptoms to express states of mind. Jeanne
Magagna has worked for 45 years trying to find ways of helping
these children, varying in age and symptoms. Using infant
observation methods of understanding primitive states of mind
expressed through gestures of eyes, hands, body posture, she has
worked in in-patient or out-patient settings with contributors: a
group of psychiatrists, psychologists, family and child
psychotherapists, physiotherapists, nurses, therapeutic care
workers, teachers, parents groups and work discussion seminar
members in out-patient and in-patient settings. In their chapters,
the professionals and a parent show how they use their observation,
empathy and countertransference experiences to promote
understanding in the silent child and his/her parents and
siblings.This book is particularly important for mental health
professionals, teachers and parents who are encountering "a child
communicating without words." It will assist them in being curious
and nurturing rather than paralyzed by the experience of having to
think without the child s verbal response.Contributors: Jeanne
Magagna, Nancy L. Bakalar, Melanie Bladen, Sarah Dixon, Alex
Dubinsky, Jo Guiney, Bryan Lask, Natalie Le Clezio, Tara
Pepper-Goldsmith, Cynthia Rousso, Ankur Sharma, Michelle Scott,
Naomi Simon, David Wood, Charlotte Wormald."
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