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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.

• General Introduction:
  • Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts
  • Central Concepts in Psychoanalytic Understanding
• Part I:
  • The Young Child.
  • Internal Conflict and Growth in a Pre-school Child. Early Identifications in the Borderline Child.
• Part II:
  • 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 III:
  • The Adolescent.
  • A Group for Adolescent Inpatients with Spina Bifida.
  • Psychoanalytic Theories of Adolescence.
  • The Containment of Borderline Adolescents.
  • The Eclipse of Adolescence: Assessment of Normal and Pathological Aspects.

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