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"Work Discussion"brings together a combination of close observation
of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of
the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such
a model depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the
descriptions offered here, both by students and by experienced
staff, fully demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach,
both to training and to a wide variety of work situations. The book
outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions
of a range of settings, both in Britain and abroad, in which that
method has been successfully applied. The contributors draw on
experiences across age, culture, and race in, for example, schools,
hospitals, residential homes, in a prison, and in a refugee
community. The final chapter explores the implications of work
discussion for research and policy-making more generally. Many of
the situations narrated here are extreme, whether in terms of
disturbance or of vulnerability, but they offer moving insights
into how effective the method can be and how truly impressive a
developmental model it provides.
Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the
twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular
for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid
depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein's works
highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her
writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their
significance. Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein's
work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part
is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It
shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her
patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their
unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind.
The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality,
to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing
writing by her associates as well as herself. The book provides a
lucid account of Klein's published writing, presented by two
distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative
use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim
is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic
thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it
remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis. Reading Klein
will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in
psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are
interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.
Rustin is an internationally respected figure in child
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy * Covers all defining, key aspects
of her work * Covers theory and clinical material
Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the
twentieth century's greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular
for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid
depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein's works
highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her
writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their
significance. Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein's
work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part
is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It
shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her
patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their
unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind.
The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality,
to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing
writing by her associates as well as herself. The book provides a
lucid account of Klein's published writing, presented by two
distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative
use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim
is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic
thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it
remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis. Reading Klein
will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in
psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are
interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in
the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail
include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett
among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle
understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by
psychoanalytic practice can bring new ways of understanding classic
works of drama. The argument of the book, set out in its
introduction and exemplified in its discussion of individual
dramatists and plays, is that western drama has represented the
central tensions of societies as crises in the relationships of
gender and generation, through dramatic explorations of the inner
life of families. This is the common theme which links the book's
analysis of Medea, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream amongst
others. The value of this book lies in the originality of its
analysis of individual plays, and the subtlety with which it brings
psychoanalytic and sociological insights together.
Rustin is an internationally respected figure in child
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy * Covers all defining, key aspects
of her work * Covers theory and clinical material
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often
fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has
a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud s
observation of his grandson s game with the cotton-reel
onwards.This book describes the practice of observing young
children in home and nursery settings in a systematic and
non-intrusive way in order to expand our understanding of their
emotional, cognitive, and social development. It uses a
psychoanalytic lens to enrich the meaning of what is seen. How do
minds and personalities take shape? How can we train people to see
what is most relevant in helping children to develop?The chapters
range from classic papers by famous practitioners of an older
generation to observations completed in recent years in the UK,
Europe, and the US. Observation of this sort has also spread to
Latin America, India, Australia, Africa, and the Far East. The
differences and continuities with Infant Observation are the
starting point. What happens when a child starts nursery? How
active a playmate should an observer be? How do we balance the
close attention given to the observed child with the wider group of
children in a nursery? How do we make sense of the marked cultural
differences we see between families, nurseries, and indeed national
cultures? How can we use observation as a baseline for early
intervention and how can we research what we are doing?The book is
written for the many students and professionals concerned with the
care and education of under fives, and for parents, grandparents,
and all who are interested in the mind of the young child. The
meeting of inner and outer worlds, which characterizes life in
these crucial years, is vividly depicted. Readers will delight in
the children s capacity for imaginative thought and also find
themselves pondering what makes a nursery a good-enough place for
staff and children."
Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a
wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community
mental-health which have always been strongly influenced by
psychoanalysis. In the last thirty years it has also developed
systemic family therapy as a new theoretical model and clinical
approach to family problems. The Clinic has become the largest
training im3titUtion in Britain for work of this kind, providing
post-graduate and qualifying courses in social work, psychology,
psychiaay, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy and, latterly,
in nursing. It trains about 1200 student each year in over 45
courses.
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in
the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail
include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett
among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle
understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by
psychoanalytic practice can
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often
fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has
a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud's
observation of his grandson's game with the cotton-reel onwards.
This book describes the practice of observing young children in
home and nursery settings
This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work
discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic. It describes the
evolution and contemporary practice of work discussion in relation
to a wide range of professional work with children, adolescents,
and families.
This book describes an approach to children and young people who
might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to
factors within the child's personality, to strengths and
impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and
wider school and community context. Individual chapters address
both clinical methods and a variety of clinical problems, including
work with very young children and their parents, severe deprivation
and family breakdown, developmental delay, and the more serious
psychological illnesses of childhood. Assessment in Child
Psychotherapy is a significant contribution to all mental health
professionals who need to be able to identify the precise nature of
a child, adolescent or family's problems and to offer the most
appropriate help. Such a book is long overdue. It spans a range of
thinking about how best to reach those whose emotional and
behavioural difficulties pose challenging questions as to the most
suitable forms of treatment.
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new
contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based
on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is
the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst,
vivid in their description of the children and families they
encountered. Their understanding of the "inner worlds" of patients
and the clinical consulting room is clearly evidenced in their
analysis of clinical presentations. The chapters are the result of
the psychoanalytic clinical and observational practices of their
authors, allied to their use of rigorous qualitative research
methods, in particular Grounded Theory and interpretative
phenomenological analysis (IPA). They describe developments of
child psychoanalytic knowledge in several fields, including autism,
psychotherapy with severely deprived children, and the study of
early infancy. They demonstrate advances in child psychoanalytic
theories and methods and the development of new forms of clinical
service provision. Contested issues in psychoanalytic research are
thoroughly evaluated, showing how it can be made more accountable
and rigorous through the adaptation of established qualitative
research methods to the study of unconscious mental phenomena. New
Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy will be an essential text in the
field of child psychoanalysis and will be highly useful in
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training courses and for
psychoanalytic researchers, as well as for practitioners.
On its first publication Narratives of Love and Loss was widely
recognised as an important and perceptive contribution to the study
of children's literature and for its capacity to stimulate deep
emotional responses in both child and adult readers. This welcome
reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the
phenomenal success of J.K Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories.
The authors succeed in bringing a deep sociological and
psychoanalytic close reading to some of the finest writing for
children in post-war Britain and America, including works by C.S.
Lewis, Rumer Godden, E.B. White and Russel Hoban. Focussed
primarily on the 'fantasy genre of stories' the authors identify
and sensitively explore the themes of imaginative and emotional
growth, language and play, love and loss; always situating these
within the broader social and cultural context.
On its first publication Narratives of Love and Loss was widely
recognised as an important and perceptive contribution to the study
of children's literature and for its capacity to stimulate deep
emotional responses in both child and adult readers. This welcome
reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the
phenomenal success of J.K Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories.
The authors succeed in bringing a deep sociological and
psychoanalytic close reading to some of the finest writing for
children in post-war Britain and America, including works by C.S.
Lewis, Rumer Godden, E.B. White and Russel Hoban. Focussed
primarily on the 'fantasy genre of stories' the authors identify
and sensitively explore the themes of imaginative and emotional
growth, language and play, love and loss; always situating these
within the broader social and cultural context.
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised,
time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising
twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven
sessions for parents or carers, designed so that it can be
delivered within a public mental health system, such as Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Services in the UK. It has its origins in
psychoanalytic theoretical principles, clinical experience, and
empirical research suggesting that psychoanalytic treatment of this
duration can be effective for a range of disorders, including
depression, in children and young people. The manual explicitly
focuses on the treatment of moderate to severe depression, both by
detailing the psychoanalytic understanding of depression in young
people and through careful consideration of clinical work with this
group. It is the first treatment manual to describe psychoanalytic
psychotherapy for adolescents with depression. The treatment
approach described in this manual has been used in a multi-site
randomised controlled trial in the UK, 'Improving Mood with
Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies' (IMPACT) and
internationally. It is presented here as a treatment to be used in
routine clinical practice and will be of interest to child
psychotherapists, multi-disciplinary professionals in young
peopleaEURO (TM)s mental health, service providers, and researchers
alike. After describing theoretical models of depression and
presenting an overview of STPP as a treatment model, the manual
details the specific stages of the STPP process for the therapist
and adolescent patient. It then describes the nature and scope of
parallel work with parents and gives a detailed account of the
function of supervision.
This book describes an approach to children and young people who
might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to
factors within the child's personality, to strengths and
impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and
wider school and community context. Individual chapters address
both clinical methods and a variety of clinical problems, including
work with very young children and their parents, severe deprivation
and family breakdown, developmental delay, and the more serious
psychological illnesses of childhood. Assessment in Child
Psychotherapy is a significant contribution to all mental health
professionals who need to be able to identify the precise nature of
a child, adolescent or family's problems and to offer the most
appropriate help. Such a book is long overdue. It spans a range of
thinking about how best to reach those whose emotional and
behavioural difficulties pose challenging questions as to the most
suitable forms of treatment.
This volume ofPsychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China continues
the tradition we began last year of featuring cultural issues that
confront analysts and therapists as they apply psychoanalytic
thinking to their work with Chinese patients and students. Therapy
and work with institutions is embedded in the civilization in which
we work, so the issues facing China and its people confront us
every day that we conduct therapy,consultation, and training there.
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new
contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based
on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is
the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst,
vivid in their description of the children and families they
encountered. Their understanding of the "inner worlds" of patients
and the clinical consulting room is clearly evidenced in their
analysis of clinical presentations. The chapters are the result of
the psychoanalytic clinical and observational practices of their
authors, allied to their use of rigorous qualitative research
methods, in particular Grounded Theory and interpretative
phenomenological analysis (IPA). They describe developments of
child psychoanalytic knowledge in several fields, including autism,
psychotherapy with severely deprived children, and the study of
early infancy. They demonstrate advances in child psychoanalytic
theories and methods and the development of new forms of clinical
service provision. Contested issues in psychoanalytic research are
thoroughly evaluated, showing how it can be made more accountable
and rigorous through the adaptation of established qualitative
research methods to the study of unconscious mental phenomena. New
Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy will be an essential text in the
field of child psychoanalysis and will be highly useful in
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training courses and for
psychoanalytic researchers, as well as for practitioners.
For many years the regular observation of infants during the first
two years of life has been a vital element in the training of child
psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic. This book presents case
studies which are evocative, sensitive, and jargon-free, in order
to explore the developing relationships of infants with their
mothers and other family members. Drawing on the work of pioneers
such as Klein and Winnicott, it shows how the capacity to learn
from direct observation can be developed. The book will be of value
not only to parents but to all professionals working with young
children.
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