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.

Offers fresh perspectives on working with older people in a range of physical health, mental health and social care contexts. This book contains examples that can be familiar both to practitioners working with older people and to older people themselves and their families.

Presents a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freud's dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about children's dreams. This title provides a description of Freud's observations on child dreaming and also presents the results obtained from four empirical studies on children's dreams.

Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying? The author has chosen the first, the challenging title and the one that stimulates the reader to find out how they inter-relate. There are essential links between the facts and the concepts.

Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning examines authorial illness and the process of slow recovery as a tool for reflective learning, and explores ethical issues in problem-based learning. The second part of the book deals specifically with the problem of online anxiety.

The study of infant observation is widely used as part of training to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Through the delineation of the views of writers and teachers of infant observation and her own empirical research, the author addresses the reasons why infant observation is a vital part of training for all analysts.

This book attempts to create a dialogue between the infant as revealed by the experimental approach and as clinically reconstructed, in the service of resolving the contradiction between theory and reality. It describes the several ways that organization can form in the infant's mind.