ABSTRACT
This book gathers together selected papers and book chapters by Dilys Daws, covering her 50 years of pioneering work as a child psychotherapist.
It provides those working with parents, infants, and children with a means of learning from Daws’s decades of experience as a psychotherapist and therapeutic consultant, with plentiful case material illustrating her method of working in action. The first two sections of the book focus on her work as consultant psychotherapist in the baby clinic of a GP practice and her parent-infant work in this context as well as at the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. The third section explores her work with young children, focusing on questions around the therapeutic frame and setting. The fourth section features extended excerpts from her writings for the general public, most particularly aimed at new parents and parents with infants. Finally, the book also contains several short reflective pieces addressing themes to do with parent-infant work, the experience of the therapist, and the social role of psychoanalytic thinking.
This book will be of interest to all those working with parents and children, including doctors, health visitors, and social workers, as well as child psychotherapists and child psychoanalysts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|30 pages
Therapeutic consultancy
chapter 1|9 pages
Standing next to the weighing scales 1
chapter 2|15 pages
A child psychotherapist in the baby clinic of a general practice
part 2|66 pages
Parent-infant psychotherapy and infant mental health
chapter 5|20 pages
Brief psychoanalytic therapy for sleep problems
chapter 6|14 pages
Feeding problems and relationship difficulties
part 3|29 pages
Child psychotherapy
chapter 8|10 pages
Consent in child psychotherapy
chapter 9|17 pages
Resistance and co-operation
part 4|45 pages
Writing for parents
chapter 10|7 pages
The one-year-old and his family
chapter 11|5 pages
Love and hate
chapter 12|17 pages
Crying babies
chapter 13|14 pages
Your baby's emerging sense of self
part 5|27 pages
Reflections