Severe Emotional Disturbances in Children and Adolescents Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts

Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents conveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to body and mind by the most distressed sections of adolescents. Illustrated by clinical material, chapters cover subjects including: the Inpatient therapeutic setting; family rehabilitation after physical abuse; the adoptive father; work with adolescent inpatients with spina bifida. Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents underlines the value of intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a coherent method of treatment in even the most severe cases of emotional disturbance. Psychotherapists, mental health workers, and social workers will find it a valuable resource for difficult work in a variety of contexts.

Contents:
General Introduction: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts, Central Concepts in Psychoanalytic Understanding. Part 1: The Young Child. Internal Conflict and Growth in a Pre-school Child. Early Identifications in the Borderline Child. Part 2: The Child in the Family. The Child's Experience of an Inpatient Therapeutic Setting. Family Rehabilitation After Physical Abuse. Challenges in Work with Emotional and Sexual Abuse. Mother-infant Work During Family Rehabilitation. The Adoptive Father. Part 3: The Adolescent. A Group for Adolescent Inpatients with