ABSTRACT
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, sexual and emotional abuse
* the adoptive father
* work with adolescent inpatients with spina bifida
* assessment, treatment and clinical management of adolescent disturbance.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
General introduction
part |37 pages
The young child
chapter |15 pages
Internal conflict and growth in a pre-school child
chapter |19 pages
Early identifications in the borderline child
part |91 pages
The Child in the Family
chapter |17 pages
The child's experience of an inpatient therapeutic setting
chapter |20 pages
Family rehabilitation after physical abuse
chapter |14 pages
Challenges in work with emotional and sexual abuse
chapter |17 pages
Mother–infant work during family rehabilitation
chapter |19 pages
The adoptive father
part |76 pages
The Adolescent