The focus of this book is a series of detailed descriptions of clinical work with children. The contributors seek to understand their patients' problems by drawing upon a fundamentally psychoanalytic orientation. Their approach is influenced by recent advances in the understandi…
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What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can her writings teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant to those entrusted with the welfare of infants and young people? Reading Anna…
Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community. In the case of childhood emotional disturbances, the need for widely available tr…